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Author Biography

Mariana Savka was born in 1973 in the town of Kopychyntsi, Ternopil region. She is a public figure, poet, translatorchildren's author, literary scholar, publicist, and editor-in-chief and co-founder of Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva (Old Lion’s Publishing House) in 2001 with her then husband Yuri Chopyk. She graduated from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and practiced singing and acting in her youth (she graduated from the drama studio at the Les Kurbas Lviv Theatre). During her university years, was a member of a literary group MMYNNA TUGA (ММЮННА ТУГА) (which also included Marianna Kiianovska, Yulia Mishchenko, Natalka Sniadanko, Natalia Tomkiv, and Anna Sereda).

Mariana worked as a junior researcher at the Center of Periodicals at the Lviv National Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library, as well as a literary editor and cultural observer at the daily newspaper Postup.
Mariana authored several children's books: Does the Baboon Have a Granny? (ukr. Чи є в бабуїна бабуся? (2003)), Paws and Tails (ukr. Лапи і хвости (2005)), Fairy Tale about an Old Line (ukr. Казка про Старого Лева (2011)), Sandals for the Centipede (ukr. Босоніжки для стоніжки (2015)), At the Swamp (ukr. На болоті (2015)), Silent Poems for Winter (ukr. Тихі віршики на зиму (2015)).
Mariana’s poems were published in literary magazines and miscellanies, such as Suchasnist (Kyiv), Svitovyd (Kyiv – New York), Kurier Kryvbasu (Kryvyi Rih), Chetver (Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv), Pleroma (Ivano-Frankivsk), Nemunas (Vilnius), Korolivskyi Lis (Lviv), The Ukrainian Quarterly (New York) etc. Her work has been included in several poetry anthologies, for example, the anthology of eleven poetesses We and She (ukr. Ми і Вона) and Metamorphoses. Top Ten Ukrainian Poets of the Last Decade (ukr. Метаморфози. Десять найкращих українських поетів останніх десятих років).

Oleh Petrenko-Zanevsky is an artist, book designer, illustrator of children's books. member of the Union of Artists. Participant of many international exhibitions. For a long time he worked as an art editor of the children's magazine "Sunflower".