Author: Halya Kruk
Bio: Halyna Krouk (Kruk) was born in Lviv, Ukraine in 1974. She is a poet, translater, Ph.D. of filology and children’s writer. She is an author of three poetry books – Mandry u  Poshukakh Domu (Journeys in Search of Home), Slidy na Pisku (Footprints on Sand) (both 1997) and Oblychchia poza svitlynoju (The Face beyond the Photograph) (2005) . Krouk been published widely in literary journals and has won two Ukrainian literary awards - the first prize in competition “Greeting of life” in honour of Bohdan-Ihor Antonych (Lviv, 1996) and the first prize in competition of young Ukrainian writers «Hranoslov» (Kiev, 1996). Her poems were translated into English, Polish, Russian, Belorussian, German, Swedish, Lithuanian, Croatian etc languages.
Also Krouk writes children’s poetry and fiction, which she published in children’s magazines and anthologies. In 2003 she won the Step by Step international competition for children’s books. Her Marko mandruje navkolo svitu (Marko Travels Around the World) and Najmenshyj (The Littlest) have been translated into 15 languages. 
She is a member of the Union of Ukrainian Writers and a professor of literary studies at Lviv National University.