Yuliia Iliukha is a Ukrainian poet, writer, and journalist from the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. She is the author of two novels, The Eastern Syndrome and Zero, short story collections The Sky Catchers. Teach Me to Dream and My Women (the last one has already been translated into six languages), poetry collections Graphomaniac Poems and Das letzte Ahornblatt, along with several books for children. Her poetry and prose have been translated into English, German, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Portuguese, French, Slovak, Lithvanian, Catalan and other languages. Iliukha is a recipient of numerous awards, including the International Ukrainian-German Oles Honchar Prize for Literature, the award from the International Literary Contest “Word Coronation 2018,” the 128 LIT International Chapbook Prize 2023 (USA), Rotahorn-Literaturpreis 2024 (Austria) and BBC Book of the Year 2024 (Ukraine). Her collection of short fiction My Women was shortlisted for EBRD Literature Prize 2025. 

She curated “The Mark of Home,” a socio-poetic multimedia project supporting the rehabilitation of Ukrainian war veterans through the arts, and compiled an eponymous poetry collection. She also conducted a series of interviews with writers for Den, a Ukrainian daily newspaper.   

Since 2014, when Russia unleashed war against Ukraine, she has been actively involved in volunteering. Together with a friend, she assembled over 500 individual tactical medical kits for Ukrainian soldiers.