Grusha Yaryna

Born on 09.07.1986 in Yampil, Vinnytsia region, Ukraine. In 2008 she graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, faculty of Italian Philology. Before moving to Italy in 2015 Grusha had been working in the field of Ukrainian culture, cinema, TV and different literature and cinema festivals, writing also for LitAkcent and Chytomo. Since 2018 she is teaching the course of Ukrainian language and literature in University of Milan.

In 2022 she launched first courses and seminars of Ukrainian language and literature in Bologna and Turin University. In 2022 together with his colleague Alessandro Achilli Grusha edited and co-translated the fist anthology of Ukrainian Poetry in Italian "Poeti d’Ucraina" published for Mondadori. In 2023 she edited the first literary guide "Dimensione Kyiv" for Italian publisher Rizzoli. Grusha collaborates with La Repubblica, Linkiesta, European Pravda and Radio Radicale. Since 2022 she is working as an editor-in-chief of Slava Evropi, a page in Ukrainian language of Italian website Linkiesta.