Pavlova Olena

Born on July 5, 1984, Olena Pavlova spent her childhood in Rivne where she graduated from high school and an art school. She currently lives in Kyiv.

Olena studied philology and journalism at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. While studying, she researched Ukrainian folklore, play on words, mass literature, irony and contemporary parody, held trainings and competitions in intellectual games, and made documentaries. She also played in women’s football teams.

Until 2016, Olena led the culture department at the Kraina magazine where she had worked for six years. She was also responsible for the culture pages at the Gazeta.ua website and the Newspaper in Ukrainian.

Olena founded the actual short story competition Novelette in Ukrainian and had been its curator for seven years.

In 2017, she became the author of the idea and curator of the project ComPoe launched by the Goethe Institute Ukraine and dedicated to comix poetry. Its result was encapsulated in the first Ukrainian collection of comics poetry.

Since 2018, Olena has been working as the editor-in-chief of the Osvitoria.Media website, one of the leading Ukrainian online media on the educational issues.

In 2019, she took the second place in the literary competition of the Smoloskyp Publishing House and began to prepare her poetry collection Skin of the Cities for publishing.

In 2020, Olena became an expert of the Ukrainian Book Institute’s program of public libraries funds replenishment.

Olena is the author of Inzhyr the Cat, the protagonist of the online comics that has gained about 30 thousand followers on the social media. The comics is primarily dedicated to Ukrainian language and literature, and aimed at popularization of reading, Ukrainian culture and the values of democratic society. Numerous memes from it had gone viral many times. In 2021, Olena was also one of the developers of Criticats, the first Ukrainian board game to develop critical thinking.