Iryna Starovoyt

Iryna Starovoyt (; born 6 July 1975) is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, translator cultural studies scholar and literary critic. She has published a number of essays and three collections of poetry. Staravoyt is a professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University, and was awarded the Key to the City by the Lviv City Mayor.

Early life and education Starovoyt was born in Lviv in 1975, She has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Virtual Writer-in-Residence at Trent University and Durham College in Canada.

Starovoyt writes in Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, and English, and her works have been translated into Polish, Lithuanian, English, Romanian, and Armenian. Her research and poetry often explore the neglected generational memories of the 20th century and the traumatic context of their retelling in Eastern Europe and Ukraine.