Halyna Kruk [Ukraine] is a poet and translator from Lviv. Her collection «A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails» Halyna Kruk is a poet, prose writer, translator and literary scholar from Lviv, Ukraine. She has written seven poetry collections, including «An Adult Woman» (2017). Her latest poetry collection «A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails» was published in English and German; her work has been translated into more than 30 languages. She was shortlisted for the 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize. Kruk teaches Ukrainian and European baroque literature at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, where she also earned her doctorate. She lives in Lviv.
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