Anna Siedykh

Anna Siedykh comes from the suburb of Kyiv, Vyšneve. She completed her bachelor's degree in mass media communication at UCM in Trnava. She received her master's degree from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv in the field of literary studies and comparative literature. During her studies, she participated in the Erasmus+ program at Comenius University in Bratislava in the field of Slovak literature and literary studies.

She worked at the Bratislava City Library as a librarian, lecturer, and dramaturge, and at the Bratislava City Gallery and Bratislava City Museum as a translator. She currently works as a producer and dramaturge at the Malý Berlín cultural center and as a curator of the Ukrainian program at the Goethe-Institut Bratislava.

In 2023, her short story was published in Ukraine in the collection Neviem ako o tom písať (Я не знаю, як про це писати) by Knigolove Publishing. The collection was curated by Ukrainian writer Irena Karpa.

In 2023, she completed an online creative writing course as part of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2024, she completed a residency and workshops as part of the Propysy project in Ivano-Frankivsk organized by the Ukrainian PEN organization. Her texts were published in an anthology of young Ukrainian authors.

In 2024, her debut poetry collection Cudzinečnosť (Strangeness) was published by F.A.C.E.

She has published her articles, poems, translations, and interviews in Denník N, Kurník, Psí víno, Kapitál, Knižná revue, the Slovak magazine Nádvorie Magazín, [fjúžn], and the film magazine Cinemaview.sk. She has also published in the Ukrainian media LitAkcent, Varosh, The Lede, LB, and MediaLab.

She translates Slovak and Ukrainian literature.