Olesia Mamchych (Олеся Мамчич) was born in 1981 in Kyiv. She studied at the Taras Shevchenko National University where she graduated from the creative writing program, and holds a scholarship at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She is the author of five poetry collections and more than ten books for children. Her poems are included in the curriculum of primary schools. Winner of the Lesia Ukrainka Prize (2022), she has also won the Book Forum Best Book Award (2021) of the Lviv Publishers Forum for her children’s book Овва, як бува! Абетка з історії України (That’s How It Happens! The Alphabet of Ukrainian History). She currently lives in Krakow and is the editor of the Polish and Ukrainian literature portal Posestry.