Yuliia Iliukha

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Yuliia Iliukha's flash-fiction collection My Women (2024) has become one of the more widely travelled works of recent Ukrainian prose: shortlisted for the 2025 EBRD Literature Prize, winner of 128 LIT's International Chapbook Prize (2023), and published in English (translated by Hanna Leliv, 128 LIT, 2024) and French (translated by Iryna Dmytrychyn and Agathe Bonin, Éditions des femmes, 2025). Her poetry and prose have been translated into more than ten languages altogether, including German, Italian, Polish, and Swedish. 

The collection grew out of a series of short, anonymous pieces Iliukha began writing in 2022. Every protagonist in the finished book remains unnamed, so any reader can recognize oneself in them. Across her fiction, Iliukha returns to the collective, often anonymous experience of women and to the quieter, internal strains that accompany upheaval, as in her novels Eastern Syndrome (2019) and Zero (2023). She also writes for children. 

Beyond her own writing, she curates The Mark of Home, a multimedia poetry project supporting the creative rehabilitation of Ukrainian veterans and has taken part in reading-promotion missions for children and adults in communities near the front line.