Jenya Polosina

Jenya Polosina

Illustrator

Zhenya Polosina is an illustrator and comic artist, based in Kyiv. She has worked on multiple illustration projects for media outlets and book publications. From 2015 to 2021, she curated the illustration course at Kyiv’s Projector school of design. In 2015, together with Anna Ivanenko, she founded the Seri/graf studio, which has focused since 2022 on documentary comics. In 2025, her cover for the H. G. Wells collection was elected for the Highly Commended award at the World Illustration Awards.

Publications

Restless democracy: a glimpse into the future
Restless democracy: a glimpse into the future

This essay runs through such ideas, and offers a positive way forward: by rebuilding spaces of genuine encounter between people, we can alleviate the general restlessness. The future of democracy may depend less on what we invent, and more on how we choose to reconnect.

In wartime, everything is a verb
In wartime, everything is a verb

Iya Kiva explores how the very grammar of war transforms existence – how, in the crucible of invasion and resistance, life becomes verb-like, active, restless, and rooted in the necessity of keeping time moving forward.