Anastasia Levkova (1986) is a Ukrainian writer, editor, cultural manager, and journalist. Since 2007, she has been running dozens of book projects in Ukraine. Currently, she is an editor of The Ukrainians media and a coordinator of PEN, Ukraine’s Merezhyvo [Lacework] Project: Literary Readings in Towns of Ukraine. She is also a member of PEN Ukraine.
Her novel for teenagers, Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman (Старшокласниця. Першокурсниця) (published by The Old Lion Publishing House in 2017), was shortlisted for BBC Children’s Book of the Year and Litaccent of the Year, and won the Prose Debut of the Year nomination from BaraBuka. Her fiction book for children Ashik Omer was published by Portal in 2020, and her nonfiction book for teenagers and adults, Common Language. How Words Are Born and Live, also published by Portal in 2020,wa sshortlisted for BaraBuka and Book of the Year. Her novel There is a Land Beyond Perekop. A Crimean Novel, published by Laboratory in 2023 was shortlisted for BBC Book of the Year.
