She is an award-winning poet and prose writer, translator, and scholar from Lviv, Ukraine. She is the author of five books of poetry – An Adult Woman (2017), Co(an)existence (2013), The Face beyond the Photograph (2005), Footprints on Sand and Journeys in Search of a Home (both 1997), collection of short stories Anyone but me (2021), and four books for children. Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages. Her latest poetry books in English translation are A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails (2023) and Lost in Living (2024). She is a winner of numerous literary awards in Ukraine, including Sundara Ramaswamy Prize, 2023 Women in Arts Award, 2022 Kovaliv Fund Prize, Best Book Award of BookForum 2021, etc.
Halyna Kruk is a member of PEN Ukraine. She lives in Lviv and teaches European and Ukrainian baroque literature at Ivan Franko National University (Lviv). Her selected works have been translated into Hindi language by Indian poet Nidheesh Tyagi.