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Author Biography

Halyna Tkachuk is a writer, literary scholar and teacher. Born in 1985 in Khmelnytsky, she was raised in the Kyiv region where she lives until now. She studied literature at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University and researched the image of the city in children’s literature. Halyna Tkachuk was an editor of the teen magazine Odnoklasnyk (The Classmate) and participated in BaraBooka The Space of the Ukrainian Children’s Book. She also taught Ukrainian, literature and creative writing to junior students at an alternative school. Since 2017, she has been the inspirer and manager of the literary studio Napysator (The Scriber). Halyna Tkachuk is the author of children’s novellas such as The Evening Shops of Voloska Street, Beans the Squirrel and Midnight Gobbler; picture books for the youngest readers The Swing under the Maple Tree (available in our catalogue), The Blue Box, The Green Squirrel and My Most Silent Book; collection of stories such as Thirteen Tales in the Dark as well as non-fiction books, Schoology and The Book about Garbage, that was co-written with teenage authors.

Ksenia Markevich is a Ukrainian illustrator from Lutsk