Short Bio

L. Kharkiv is an author-illustrator of Into the Kryvolis Forest, a Middle Grade novel in verse rooted in Ukrainian folklore. She lives and works in New Hampshire, where she writes fairy tales and pulls strange beasts out of her ink pens.

Long Bio

L. Kharkiv is a Ukrainian-American author-illustrator, a New Englander with an accent. She writes fairy tales rooted in Ukrainian folklore and spends her days chasing a cat off her sketchbooks. She spent her childhood in the magnificent city of Kharkiv, and all of her summers in a tiny Ukrainian village. The woods and the fields behind her grandparents’ house now provide lifelong inspiration for her work. Her debut, Into the Kryvolis Forest, is ready to launch into the world August 15, 2026.

Today, L. Kharkiv lives with her family in New Hampshire, where she welcomes every snowstorm, and, Dunkin’s in hand, pursues the ambition of climbing every 4K peak in the state.

She is a member of IBPA and IPNE, and she is currently working on two picture books and an adult fantasy novel set in the same world.