Hanna Arsenych-Baran

Hanna Vasylivna Arsenych-Baran (; 26 June 1970 – 1 April 2021) was a Ukrainian novelist, poet, school teacher and writer of prose. She was the author of more than a hundred textbooks on the Ukrainian language and literature as well as multiple dictionaries. Arsenych-Baran was a teacher who taught the Ukrainian language and literature in Chernihiv and educated students at the K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University. She won the Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky Regional Prize and the Leonid Glibov Regional Prize. Arsenych-Baran was a member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine, become chair of its Chernihiv regional organisation in November 2016.

Early life On 26 June 1970, Arsenych-Baran was born in the village of Nyzhnii Bereziv, Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Her ancestors from both sides of her family had worked in business, were doctors, local historians, poets, priests and scientists; some were members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

Career Arsenych-Baran's career commenced as a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature in the schools of Kosiv Raion. She became a member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine in 1998. In 2001, she published the collection of poetry Blooming Hawthorn and the book of prose Under the Apples of Paradise in the same year.

She also wrote a number of songs for some composers. as well as the Leonid Glibov Regional Prize. Her works have been translated into Armenian, Belarusian and English. On the late evening of 1 April 2021, she died suddenly of COVID-19 complications following her being discharged from hospital with improvement to her condition a day earlier. Arsenych-Baran's funeral service and burial was held two days later.