Halyna Kruk

Halyna Kruk (; born 30 November 1974) is a Ukrainian writer, translator, educator and literary critic. Her surname also appears as Krouk.

Kruk has been vice-president of the Ukrainian branch of the writer's organisation PEN. In 1996–97, she won the literary competitions Pryvitannia Zhyttia and Granoslov. In 2003, she was awarded the Gaude Polonia Fellowship by the Polish Ministry of Culture. In the same year, she won the Step by Step international competition for children's books. Her 2022 book, A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She has participated in the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators' program.

Selected works Yuliya Ilchuk, Halyna Kruk and Amelia M. Glaser at the ceremony of the Griffin Prize in the Koerner Hall in Toronto Poetry A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails (2022) Grown-Up (2017) (Co)existence (2013) The Face beyond the Photograph (2005) Footprints on Sand (1997) Journeys in Search of a Home (1997) Children's Literature Marko Travels Around the World (2003) It's Hard to Be the Youngest (2003)