Iya Kiva

Poetess, translator

Iya Kiva is a Ukrainian poetess, translator, editor and journalist. She is a graduate of Donetsk National University (Russian philology, culture studies). She also studied graphic design. After the start of the war in 2014, she moved to Kyiv. She writes in Ukrainian and in Russian. Her poems, translations and reviews have been published in Ukrainian and international media. She has authored poetry collections: A Little Further from Heaven (2018) and The First Page of Winter (2019). She translated Marina Galina’s novel Avtokhtony (2016) into Ukrainian, and co-translated Lesyk Panasiuk’s poetry collection The Screams of Hands (2018) into Russian. She has translated contemporary Ukrainian poems into Russian (Serhiy Zhadan, Oleh Kotsarev, Yulia Stakhivska, Olena Huseinova, etc.), and Yuliya Tsimafeyeva’s poems from Belarusian into Ukrainian.