A journalist, writer, and cultural activist from Kherson. She has been a member of the National Union of Journalists since 2011 and the National Union of Writers since 2016. In 2021, she won a competition to become the director of the Stanislav Public Library (Kherson region), where she collaborated with local teenagers to establish a community radio station. She remained in her position until March 2023, actively attempting to persuade the occupying forces to remove their presence from the community libraries. Due to the lack of reliable transportation between Kherson and the village, she was forced to resign. During the occupation, she tragically lost her husband. Following the destruction of her home in the Kakhovka Dam explosion, she was left without a place to live. Despite these hardships, she is determined to stay in Kherson. 

Currently, she runs a Ukrainian speaking club called RIKA, organized by “10th of April,” embroiders, writes books, studies traditional Ukrainian folk art, and organises literary readings for Kherson residents. 

She is the author of the film novella “Masya” (2003) and poetry collections”Photographs of Feeling” (2005) and “Time Kaleidoscope” (2015). During the occupation, she wrote the safety-themed children’s story “The Wondrous Adventures of Oberezhka and Pomahaylyk” (2022), a short story about the occupation, “Giselle and Peace” (2024), and the play “The Anti-Tank Witch” (2024). The latter inspired the Kherson Regional Mykola Kulish Academic Music and Drama Theater to stage the solo performance “The Witch Will Tell You So, Enemy”.