Background
She was born in the village of Kuianivka near Sumy and was educated at Kyiv University.
She was born in the village of Kuianivka near Sumy and was educated at Kyiv University.
She works as an editor for Ukrainian Culture magazine. Her first collection of poems Ballad about the Invincibles (Balada pro neskorenykh) was published in 1976, while she was still in university. She has also published the collections The Underground Fire ( Підземний вогонь) (1984) and November (Листопад) (1989).
The collections Allergy (Алергія) (1999) and Central Hotel (Готель Централь) (2004) were the winners of Book of the Month contests in 2000 and 2004 respectively.