Victoria Melkovska was born in Ukraine in 1977 and has lived in Dublin since 2003. In Kyiv, she hosted many popular radio shows and worked as a journalist. Later she reported from Dublin for Ukrainian Radio and contributed to several Irish periodicals. She is the translator into English of Ukrainians XYZ: Habits, Tastes, Daily Life by Marta Molfar, a non-fiction book long-listed for BBC News Ukraine Book of the Year (2021). Victoria Melkovska's poems have featured on RTÉ Radio and appear in many publications, including the Dedalus Press anthologies Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets (2019) and Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate Surrounds (2021).