Born 1986 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Master's Degree in German and Modern Greek Philology – Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2008). Master's Degree in Comparative Literature Studies – Free University of Berlin (2011). She lives in Berlin and works for Die Welt, Welt am Sonntag, Focus, Deutsche Welle, n-ost, etc. as a freelance journalist