Vira Kuryko and Sofia Pokorchak
ukraine
Vira Kuryko is a Ukrainian journalist, reporter and writer. She has penned a collection of stories, including “The Street of Those Involved. The File on Lukianenko from Chernihiv”, a historical non-fiction for children “Mazepa. Rights to the Sabre”, and a non-fiction book titled “Healthy Person’s Reform”.
She is a reporter and writer for Ukrainian media outlets such as Reporters, The Ukrainians Media, Lokalna Istoria (Local History), Ukrayinskiy Tyzhden (The Ukrainian Week), Ukrainska Pravda. Her texts have also been published in German, Polish, and Czech media. She has been nominated for the BBC-2020 Book of the Year literary prize, is an awardee of the prize LitAccent of the Year 2020, winner of the contest Chest’ Profesiyi 2020 (Honor of the Profession) in a nomination Reportage. She is the author of several reportages in the joint book-collection of Reporters authors — 77 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine.
In 2022, she worked as a documentarian on The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies to document Russian war crimes in Ukraine. She is the author of a reportage about the first bombing of a residential area in Chernihiv, which was included in the book “The Most Frightening Days of My Life”. Sofia Pokorchak is an artist and illustrator from Lviv. After graduating from the College of Decorative and Applied Arts after I. Trush, she received a bachelor’s degree from the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Faculty of Design. After that, she studied animation, design, and multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. While studying, she started creating her own comics. She worked in graphic design and illustration, from magazine and advertising illustrations to children’s book graphics. In 2021, she began working in the field of fashion design as a printmaker, and in 2023, she started working with 2D frame-by-frame animation, which she has been doing ever since. 
