Olha Povoroznyk (Ukraine)

Olha Povoroznyk (1986) – Ukrainian poet and director. She is engaged in documentary filmmaking, video poetry, and artistic projects at the intersection of disciplines.

Author of the poetry collection "Name of the Water" (Krok, 2019).

Her works have been published in magazines such as "Dzvin", "Almanac of the Publishers' Forum", "Czas literatury", "Przekrój", and in anthologies like "Myakush. Anthology of Contemporary Ukrainian Gastronomic Poetry", "Anthology of the Young Republic of Poets", "New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City", "Among Sirens. New Poems of War".

In 2015, she presented her first short poetic film "Name of the Water" at the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York.

"Veretilnytsia" (2017) won first place in the national competition of the International Video Poetry Festival "Cyclops" in Kyiv.

In 2022, at an artistic residency in Germany, she completed a video for the cycle of poems "The Survivor's Guilt". The Ukrainian Theater in Berlin staged the play "Trap" based on the texts from this cycle.

In 2023, she became a finalist for the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Prize.

In 2024, she participated in a literary residency in Tartu (Estonia), resulting in a joint project "Safe Place" in collaboration with Estonian sculptor Eike Eplik, presented at the Prima Vista Literary Festival.