Halyna Hai

Halyna Hai (Гали́на Семе́нівна Гай; 3 December 1956 – 28 March 2021) was a Ukrainian poet and writer. She worked both as a journalist for the Ukrainian state media and was the long-time editor of the publishing house Bukva based in Bila Tserkva. In 2008, she was the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv regional volume of the . for which she was awarded the for "significant contribution to commemoration of the victims of the genocide of the Ukrainian people in connection with the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine".

Life Halyna Hai was a Ukrainian poet and writer. She studied at the Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and graduated in 1982. Hai worked both as a journalist for the Ukrainian state media and was the long-time editor of the publishing house Bukva based in Bila Tserkva. In 2008 she was the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv regional volume of the . After the publication of the book, Hai and the other authors were awarded the for "significant contribution to commemoration of the victims of the genocide of the Ukrainian people in connection with the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine".

Hai died on 28 March 2021, aged 64, from COVID-19. Hai's husband Anatoly Ivanovich Hai and their son Yuriy Anatolyovich Hai, are both writers.