Maryna Akram is a Ukrainian poet and writer who has been living in India for over twenty-five years. Born in Orzhytsia, Poltava region, Ukraine, she holds a degree in engineering from the Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology (Dnipro).
She is the author of six books, including five poetry collections and a work of socio-psychological prose. Her writing explores themes of migration and life between cultures, memory and language as forms of identity, womanhood and motherhood, love and loss, war and ethical responsibility, as well as inner resilience in the face of personal and historical trauma.
Her first poetry collections, In the Captivity of Life and Matthiola, were published in Ukraine and established her voice as one shaped by diaspora experience, memory, and ethical reflection. Her latest poetry collection, The Heavens Kiss My Wounds (2024), is dedicated to the defenders of Ukraine and bears witness to war as lived human experience, where memory becomes duty and language — resistance.
Her forthcoming novel, When the Wall Hears a Name (The Masters of Time), currently preparing for publication, marks an unexpected turn toward mystical and philosophical fiction.
