Anna Gruver is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, and translator, born in 1996 in Donetsk and now based in Kyiv. She debuted in 2019 with the poetry collection Nothing Was Found at Your Request, and in 2022 published the novel Her Empty Places, featured in PEN’s best-book lists. A graduate of Judaic Studies, she has received the Smoloskyp prize and held writer residencies in Graz, Krakow, and Genshagen.
📝 Her poetry resonates with multiple voices – from Donbas vernacular to philosophical depth. 🌍 Her works have been translated into English, German, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Czech, and Hebrew. 🏆 In 2019, she won the Smoloskyp Prize for emerging writers. 🎭 She participated in residencies in Austria, Poland, and Germany, and festivals like PEN, Arsenal, and Translatorium. ❤️ During the war she volunteered in a shelter in Dnipro and an orphanage evacuated to Lviv.