Yuliia Iliukha

Yuliia Iliukha is a Ukrainian poet, writer, and journalist. She is the author of two novels, The Eastern Syndrome and Zero, short story collection The Sky Catchers. Teach Me to Dream, poetry collections Graphomaniac Poems> and Das letzte Ahornblatt, and several children's books. Her poetry and prose have been translated into English, German, Italian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Catalan, Polish, Swedish, Portuguese, and French. Iliukha has received many awards, including 128 LIT's 2023 International Chapbook Prize. She is a writer-in-residence at Internationales Haus der Autor: innen in Graz, Austria. Since 2014, when Russia unleashed war against Ukraine, she has been actively involved in volunteering. Together with her friend, she assembled over 500 individual tactical medical kits for Ukrainian soldiers.