Raman Abramchuk was born in Minsk in 1981. He graduated from the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts. As a Belarusian-speaking writer Raman has been publishing his essays, poems, and travel notes in the main Belarusian media outlets. In 2021-2022, some of his literary works were selected for translation and publishing in anthologies dedicated to the protests and repressions in Belarus. Since 2021, Raman lives in Warsaw.

Valancina Aksak was born in the village of Smaličy, the Niaśviž Rajon [District]. Lives in Minsk. She has a diploma in history, an experienced journalist. She has published the books of poetry: „Cemetery“, „Chapel“, „Ancient Rain“, „Wine From California“, „Ružoŭnica“, „Wild Plum“, „Wrapped Paradise“, „Coffee In The Eagle’s Nest“, „Third Eden“. Her poems have been published in translations into Swedish, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, French, Ukrainian, and English.

Kaciaryna Andrejeva (real name – Bachvalava) is a Belarusian journalist, poet, political prisoner since November of 2020.
On 15 November 2020, Kaciaryna was arrested for her live stream from the violent crackdown of a peaceful protest in Minsk and sentenced to 2 years in prison. She was supposed to be released on 05 September 2022, but the KGB charged her with „treason against the state.“ On 13 July 2022, Kaciaryna was sentenced to 8 years and 3 months in prison for one of her old journalistic publications. Now she is in a correctional colony in Homiel.
Kaciaryna Andrejeva was born in Minsk in 1993. In 2015–2017, she worked at the Belarusian service „Radio Liberty“; since 2017 – a full-time correspondent of the „Belsat“ television channel. Co-author of the documentary book „Belarusian Donbas“ dedicated to Belarusians’ participation in the conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014-2019.  Winner of 7 international awards in the field of journalism.
Kaciaryna is fluent in English and Spanish. She writes poems in prison.

Arciom Arašonak is a Belarusian writer, translator. Born in 1981 in Viciebsk. Graduated from Viciebsk State University named after P. M. Masherov; specializes in the German and English languages. Studied under the Belarusian translator Uḷadzimir Papkovič. Author of the books „Senryū“ and „Days Without You“.

Maryna Bandarenka is an aspiring writer. Born and raised in Minsk, Belarus. In 2021, she moved to Gdańsk, Poland.

Nataliya Belchenko was born in 1973 in Kyiv. Ukrainian poetess, translator (Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian and Russian). Worked in the Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine named after O. O. Potebnia. Graduated with honors from the Department of Philology of the Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko. Has scientific publications on mythopoetics. Member of the Ukrainian PEN.

Aleś Bialacki is a Belarusan human rights defender, public figure, head and founder of the Human Rights Defending Center „Viasna“ (“Spring”), the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2022, a political prisoner. He was detained in July, 2021, according to criminal charges. On March 3, 2023 Aleś Bialacki received 10 years in a medium-security penal colony.

Vika Biran is a publicist, project manager and researcher. She was born in 1990 in Pinsk, Belarus. From 2010 to 2016, she collaborated with the Belarus Free Theatre as an actress. In 2014, together with a group of like-minded people, she launched MAKEOUT, a project about the lives of LGBTIQ+ people in Belarus. Vika currently lives in Berlin and studies cultural studies at Europa University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). She is a project manager at Unit, a network of journalists and activists working on LGBTIQ+ topics in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus.

Morti Black (Olesya Sach) was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
She took part in various artistic initiatives, including a protesting format – such as events/actions of the Kharkiv art community “Literary Slam” and “Speech’KI”. In the autumn of 2022, she herself published her first collection of poems „Magic is returning to the city“.

Oleksandr Boboshko was born in Kharkiv on February 18th, 1971. The author of eleven poetry collections published from 2005 to 2020. Member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine. Winner of the Panteleimon Kulish Literary Award (2020). Winner of the Grand Prix of the international literary festival „Just like that“ (2007). Graduate and laureate of the O. Maselskyi competition (2013, 2015). The author of lyrics of a number of songs.

Kateryna Derysheva is a poet, co-founder and organizer of the kntxt literary project. Born in 1994 in Melitopol (Ukraine)

Nadzeya Haretskaya is a cultural projects manager, teacher, Evangelical believer.
Nadzeya was born in Lida, graduated from an economic university, but always actively participated in the organizing of cultural and educational events.
Nadzeya started writing poetry at school, particularly finding ease in the composing of fables and entertaining poems. Later, through poetry, she engaged in self-reflection and processing of external events. After the birth of children, Nadzeya actively began writing children’s poems and songs. The events of 2020 were experienced through her texts and in rhymes, striving to reflect the emotions and pain, both hers and those close to her.
At the end of 2021, due to persecutions, Nadzeya had to leave Belarus, and she faced the beginning of the full-scale war in Kyiv. Now, Nadzeya lives in Vilnius, working as a cultural projects manager.

Nadiya Havryliuk is a poet, theorist of literature, candidate of philological sciences, senior researcher of the Institute of Literature named after T. H. Shevchenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, laureate of the Oleksandr Biletskyi Prize in Literary Criticism (2020) and the Volodymyr Svidzinskyi Literary Prize (2020) for her book of poetry „X-ray In Timelessness“. Author of 9 poetry collections and 3 scientific monographs. Lives and works in Kyiv.

Tetiana Hladysh was born in the village of Posad-Pokrovske in the Kherson Region, Ukraine. She suffered from osteogenesis imperfecta since childhood. Tetiana graduated from the university with the major in „Journalism“. Before the war, she wrote for various Ukrainian publications and Kherson web-sites. The author of the poetry collection „I will try to draw a miracle“.
In addition to writing, Tetiana draws, does cross-stitching, and is also fond of parasailing.
Tetiana lost her home because of the war in Ukraine. Together with her parents, in March 2022, she was forced to flee from shelling. She later learned that her house had burned down along with her embroidered and painted works, as well as the edition of her poetry collection.
Now Tetiana lives in Odessa. Most of all, she wants Ukrainians to stop being woken up by the sounds of shelling at night, so that the war in Ukraine ends, and people live in peace and tranquility again.

Antol Khinevich was born in Barysau in 1993. In Barysau he is known as a bard and performer of his own songs.
On December 24th 2020, Anatol Khinevich was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for resisting national guard servicemen during the peaceful protest in Minsk in September 2020 — as though he “landed blows lying” to the OMON soldiers.
He served time in a penal colony, wrote poetry in prison.
Anatol Khinevich has fully served his prison sentence and was released on February 15, 2023.

Marianna Kijanowska was born on November 17th, 1973 in Zhovkva, Ukraine. Writer, translator and connoisseur of literature. The author of poetry collections, collections of short stories and a large number of translations. Translates mostly poetry – from Polish, Lithuanian, Belarusian and Czech. The founder and director of the Velykyi Yizhak Literary Award for the best book in the Ukrainian language for children. Lives in Lviv.

Hanna Komar is a poet, translator and activist from Belarus. She has published four poetry collections: “Страх вышыні” [Fear of Heights], a collection of docu poetry “Мы вернемся” [We’ll Return] and „Вызвалі або бяжы“ [Set Me Free Or Run] in Belarusian, as well as the bilingual collection “Recycled”. She is Freedom of Speech 2020 Prize Laureate from the Norwegian Authors’ Union.

Hanna Krevska (Maryna Kononenko) – writer, journalist, lover of antiques.
Hanna was born in the city of Lubny, the Poltava Region, on September 5th, 1979. She graduated from Kyiv National University named after T. Shevchenko and National Pedagogical University named after M. Drahomanov. Hanna obtained two master’s degrees – journalism and deaf pedagogy. She worked as a journalist before the war, now she is a librarian.
Member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, the National Union of Writers of Ukraine. The laureate of numerous literary awards, including the regional award named after S. Velychko for the reflection of historical events in fiction, awarded the medal „History and Culture of Ukraine“, laureate of the All-Ukrainian Prize named after V. Symonenko and others.
Author of seven poetry and prose books.
„I am often asked: why Hanna and why Krevska? I reveal the secret: Hanna is our family name. Three of my grandmothers were named Hanna: two died childless, one too young, so I decided to revive this name. Krevska – because what I write is close to blood. Ours – for our own, so that they do not forget, ours – for others, so that they are respected, ours – for the world, so that the history of generations, passed from mouth to mouth, comes to life with the patterns of words“ – said Hanna about her pseudonym.
Hanna Krevska publish her works in anthologies, almanacs and periodicals on the territory of the region, sometimes she read something for the radio. Hanna likes coffee, cats, old photos and sincere people. In general, Hanna like to feed and explore the past.

Andriy Kostynskyi was born in Kharkiv. He graduated from the Law Academy of Ukraine and the Department of Philosophy of Kharkiv National University. Andriy’s poems and translations were published in the magazines and anthologies: „Herald of Europe“, „נקודתיים“, „Articulation“, „Red Times“, „Point of View“, „128lit“, „ROAR“, „Poémame“, „Berezil“, „Glass of Time“, „Graphite“, „Topos“, „Chestnut House“, „Word Slovo“, „Adab_e_Latif“, „Language of Silence“, „Air Alarm“, „NO WAR – POETS AGAINST WAR“, „KOŃCA ŚWIATA NIE BĘDZIE“ , „Ο ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ ΕΡΧΟΤΑΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΜΟΥ ΠΕΤΩΝΤΑΣ“, etc.
Author of the books „Arrhythmia“ (2009), „Iogol“ (2012), „Dawn Rehearsal“ (2019), „Ll“ (2021), etc.
His poems have been translated into English, Armenian, Bengali, Vietnamese, Greek, Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Urdu, Hebrew, etc.

Źmicier Kres was born in 1988 in Minsk. Graduated from Belarusan State Medical University. The author of the poetry collection „Viales‘ Tribe“, the book was shortlisted for the 2022 Michaḷ Aniempadystaŭ Award. His poetry and prose were published in Naša Niva, the magazines „Maḷadość“, „Poḷymia“, the virtual magazine “Taŭbin”, the Belarusan-Ukrainian literary almanac „Sprava“.

Nasta Kudasava is a poet, translator. She was born on May 25th, 1984 in Rahačoŭ, the Homiel Region (Belarus). Her works were published in various periodicals and almanacs, translated into Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Polish, Lithuanian, Czech, Russian and English. Author of five poetry books. Laureate of numerous literary prizes, member of the Union of Belarusian Writers (liquidated in Belarus).

Iryna Lapchuk (1930 – 2017) – a political prisoner and a poet. She was born in January 1930 in Lviv, Ukraine. Iryna wrote poetry in Ukrainian and was persecuted by the Soviet authorities for preserving the national Ukrainian identity. Iryna’s granddaughter, translator Tatyana Pitchulina, sent her poem to the project #FreeAllWords.

Tatyana has been taking part in the project since its beginning and translates poems by Ukrainian and Belarusian authors into Finish.

„My grandmother Iryna Lapchuk was a very lovely and reasonable lady with an artistic approach and a difficult destiny, a political prisoner. In addition to writing poems, she embroidered amazing carpets and tablecloths with Ukrainian ornaments and butterflies every day; one of her poems is how this helped her to overcome the pain. She also took care of her garden and very beautiful flowers outside her home, growing them in front of her window. She loved to feed pigeons and to watch them, as well“.

Tatyana Pitchulina, #FreeAllWords

toni lashden is a Minsk-based writer, journalist, and fem activist. Organizer of fem writing meetings in Tbilisi and curator of the fem writing laboratory “Strain” for Belarusian women who have experienced protest and emigrant traumas.

Svetlana Lavochkina is a novelist, poet, and translator. She was born in Zaporizzhia and educated in Horlivka, the Donetsk District. Lavochkina immigrated to Germany in 1999 and now lives in Leipzig with her family. Her works have been widely published in the US, Europe, and Australia. Her novella, “Dam Duchess”, was chosen as a runner-up in the Paris Literary Prize. Her debut novel, “Zap”, was shortlisted for Tibor and Jones Pageturner Prize, London.
Read here from her verse novel, “Carbon” (Lost Horse Press, 2020)

Daria Lis was born in the village of Zaleśsie in the Smarhoń District and lives here, not far from the M. K. Ahinski manor-museum. She works as a journalist, writes prose and poems. Public activist – she protects the rights of people with SMA – spinal muscular atrophy. Works with people and texts. Likes the sea, travels and good coffee in good company. Author of the book of poems and prose „Spring Jazz“.

Uladzimir Lobač, Belarusian ethnologist, doctor of historical sciences. Born in 1972 in Navapolatsk. Uladzimir worked at Polatsk State University until 2021, he was fired for political reasons. Researches the symbolic aspects of Belarusian ethnic culture and the anthropology of war. Author of more than 200 scientific works and poetry collection „ULASLOVY“ (2011)
Photo author: Miraslau Adamchyk

Dzianis Macieša was born in 1986 in the town of Pastavy. He writes poems, prose, and plays. Winner of the „Golden Apostrophe“ award of the „Dziejasḷoŭ“ magazine for the best publication in the „Debut“ category in 2021.

Natalia Matolinets is a Ukrainian writer from Lviv, who loves travelling, coffee and art nouveau. She incorporates the myths, magic, and cultural heritage of Central and Eastern Europe into her fantasy stories. Natalia is an author of eight novels, among which are the urban fantasy trilogy Varta in the Game; Ceramic Hearts; the mythological fantasy subgenre Hessie and Amaterasu Academy; the historical novella The Alliance for the Rescue of Tiles and People and All My Keys and Gaia duology.
The circulation of Nalaia’s latest book – the second book of „All my keys and Gaia“ – was destroyed by the Russian strike at the printing house „Faktor Druk“ in Kharkiv on May 23th, 2024.
Among Natalia’s accolades are the Eurocon 2023 Chrysalis Award from ESFS and many others. Her books and short stories have been translated into various European languages and English. Natalia’s first story in English translation appeared in “Tales & Feathers” magazine in 2023. Natalia was a literary resident of the UNESCO City of Literature Prague, the Institute of Urban Culture in Gdansk, House of writers and translators in Ventspils, guest speaker of Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria and lecturer at Litosvita, Ukraine. She participated in literary events and festivals in Czechia, Poland, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Sweden, UK, etc.

Tetiana Nechai (Malenka) is an Iranist, philologist, literary critic, poet.
Tetiana was born on August 15th, 1959 in the town of Yahotyn, the Kyiv Region. She graduated from the Department of Philology of Kyiv State University named after T. G. Shevchenko. Tetiana worked as a researcher at the National Museum of Literature of Ukraine (Kyiv). In 1986-1988, she lived in Tajikistan, in the city of Dushanbe, where she studied the Tajik language and literature, worked in the national board of the Book Lovers Society.
In 1993–1998, Tetiana worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies named after A. Yu. Krymskiy of the National Academy of Sciences as a research associate. Since 1994, she has been working at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University: associate professor, head of the Middle East Department of the Institute of Philology (2001–2017), director of the Center for Iranian Studies (2002–2015).
Interned as an Iranian philologist in 1991–1992 at Tajik State University (Dushanbe, Tajikistan); 1996–1997 at Tehran State University (Tehran, Iran). In 2015, Tetiana interned and gave lectures at the Department of the Persian Language and Literature of Ataturk University (Erzurum, Turkey) as part of the Mavlyan International Exchange Program of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Turkey.
Tetiana published her own poems in literary almanacs and magazines. She has three poetry collections.
Participant of international poetry festivals, performed on Tajik, Iranian, Ukrainian radio and television; participant of the artistic and scientific forum „Muses are not silent“.

Taciana Niadbaj is a chairperson of the Belarusian PEN, writer, human rights defender, manager of cultural and media projects.
Taciana was born in Poḷacak, studied in Minsk (2000-2006), Vilnius, and Lublin (2006-2011), worked in Warsaw (2011-2015) and Minsk (2015-2021).
After a politically motivated administrative arrest in 2006, she entered graduate school in Lublin and defended her thesis on the history of Belarusian literature. In 2015, she returned to Belarus, where she worked for an independent media project (Press Club Belarus, until 2017), Belarusian literature, culture and human rights (Belarusian PEN, since 2017) and coordinated other cultural, media, and publishing projects.
In July 2021, Taciana was forced to leave Belarus for security reasons and move the office of the Belarusian PEN from Minsk to Warsaw. The Belarusian PEN was liquidated by the Supreme Court of Belarus on August 9th, 2021, the anniversary of the presidential election, and registered in Warsaw on July 7th, 2022.
She also cooperates with the Open Culture Foundation (Lublin) as a deputy chairperson (since 2012) and the Belarusian House of Human Rights in Vilnius.
Taciana is the author of the poetry book „Sirens Sing Jazz“ (Poḷacak Labyrinths, 2014), for which she received the Maksim Bahdanovič Award “Debut” (2015) and the Golden Letter Award (2019).
Taciana translated into Belarusian Eva Thompson’s book „Imperial Knowledge. Russian Literature and Colonialism“ (2009); she is a co-author of the translations into Belarusian of the books by Leszek Kołakowski „Our Merry Apocalypse“ (2012), by Anna Burzynska and Michał Paweł Markowski „Literary Theories of the 20th Century“, and others.
In 2022, Taciana coordinated the publication of the book about Aleś Bialacki „Aleś“.
Photo by @Iryna Arakhouskaya, Reform.news

Uladzimir Niakliaeu is a Belarusian poet, writer, social and political figure.
Uladzimir was born on July 11th, 1946, in Smargon, Belarus. Studied at the Technical School of Electronic Communication, Minsk (1966), Literature Institute, Moscow (1971), graduated from the Department of Philology of the Institute of Pedagogics, Minsk (1973).
Professional writer since 1970. The first book of poetry “Otkrytie” (The Opening) was published in 1976.
Author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose, winner of many national and international literary awards.
Worked as Editor-in-Chief of the monthly journal on contemporary literature Krynica (Source) in 1986-1997, Editor-in-Chief of the weekly newspaper on culture Litaratura i Mastactva (Literature and Art) in 1998, and Chairperson of the Belarusan Union of Writers in 1999-2001.
Emigrated from Belarus in 1999, lived in Warsaw (Poland) and Helsinki (Finland). In 2004, returned to Belarus.
Since 2005 – Chairperson of Belarusan PEN Center.
Since 2010 – Leader of the civic campaign “Tell the Truth!”, ran for the presidential election as an independent candidate in 2010. On the day of the election, was assaulted by police forces and imprisoned for one month. While in prison, wrote the book “Letters to freedom and Volha”. The international human rights organization “Amnesty International” recognized him as a prisoner of conscience.
Since 2022, he has been living and working in Poland.

Olena Pashuk (Kitsan) was born on July 17th, 1982 in Lutsk. Candidate of Philological Sciences. Associate Professor of the Department of Theory of Literature and Foreign Literature of Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University. Since 2002, she has been a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.
Olena was published in numerous magazines, almanacs, and anthologies. Published six poetry collections and a book of poems for children. Winner of numerous literary contests and laureate of numerous literary awards.

Frydrych Samotny was born in Mahilou, since 2007 lived in Minsk, with small breaks. Better known as a musician. In 2021, the Goliath publishing house, liquidated by the state, published his debut book of poems „Начныя гульні“ („Night Games“). Since the beginning of 2022 – in emigration.

Oleh Shaposhnikov was born and lives in Poltava, works at a private enterprise as a tool fitter. He became interested in poetry unexpectedly for himself a few years ago. Published in magazines and almanacs, Oleh does not have his debut book yet.

Hanna Sieviaryniec is a Belarusian teacher, journalist and writer, literary critic, researcher of Belarusian literature. Born in Minsk in 1975. Author of six fiction and documentary books. Laureate of the literary awards. The Jerzy Giedroyc Award shortlist with the book „Belgium Hotel“ (2020), with the book „My School“ (2022).

Ludmila Simanionak was born on February 19th, 1975 in Obal, the Shumilina District. Raised in the town of Pastavy.
Ludmila graduated from the Department of the Belarusian Language and Literature of Viciebsk State University. She worked as a teacher of the Belarusian language at the Luzasniany Gymnasium for able and talented children, a methodologist of the Department of Belarusian Studies and Local History of the Viciebsk Regional Association for the organizing of extracurricular work with children and teenagers. Until January 2023 – head of the literary and dramatic department of the Belarusian Theater „Lalka“.
Author of three collections of poetry. Works were published in newspapers and magazines, almanacs and collective collections.
Ludmila translated works for children and adults into Belarusian (N. Gogol, A. Chekhov, P. Panchev, L. Ralchev, L. Panteleyev, M. Bartenev, D. Balyka, etc.). In 2010-2023, she created poetic scenarios and song lyrics for performances, entertainment programs and other events of the Belarusian Theater „Lalka“.
Member of the Union of Belarusan Writers (since 2006).
Lives in Viciebsk.

Inna Snarska is a Belarusian and Ukrainian poetess, novelist, and journalist. Inna Snarska was born on March 7th, 1965 in Polatsk, Belarus. Member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine and the Union of Belarusian Writers, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. Laureate of many literary and artistic awards. Inna Snarska’s poetry collection „The Fire Worshiper“ was included in the shortlist for the International Literary Award named after Natalla Arsieńnieva (Belarus) for the best book of poetry (2018). She is the author of nine collections of poetry, including „The Fire Worshiper“ (2017, Minsk) and „Two Heavens“ (Poltava, 2020), as well as the prose book „Enchanted Treasure“ (Minsk, 2022).

Dmitri Strotsev is a Belarusian poet. Born in Minsk in 1963. The author of 17 books of poetry. Head of the literary and publishing project „Novye Mekhi“ („New Wineskins“), publisher of the almanac and poetry series „Minsk School“. Laureate of many international literary awards, among them the Swedish PEN’s Tucholsky Award (2021) and the Belarusian PEN’s Aleś Adamovič Award (2021). His poems have been translated into English, Belarusian, Georgian, Italian, Lithuanian, German, Polish, Ukrainian, French, Swedish, Czech, Estonian and other languages.

Elina Sventsytska – poet, writer, literature expert. Author of 8 books, published by Donetsk, Kyiv and Lviv publishing houses.
Resident of Donetsk, Ukraine until 2014. Later moved to Kyiv due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Now, in 2022, was forced to move again, leaving for the second time the (new) home and the hardly gained stability.
Writes the poetry in Ukrainian language and the prose in Russian.

Siaržuk Sys is a poet, publicist, human rights defender. Born in 1962 in Paleśsie (Polesia). Graduated from the Department of History and Philology of Homiel State University. Taught the Belarusian language and literature, worked as a journalist in various mass media. Published in national and foreign mass media. Member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists. Member of the Union of Belarusian Writers since October 2010; member of the Belarusian PEN. Now – in exile.

AU is a Belarusian writer. She lives in Minsk that is still a dangerous place; therefore, AU chose not to share more detailed information about herself.

Vika Trenas (Viktoryja Lajkouskaja) is a Belarusian independent writer, editor, journalist, essayist, blogger, translator. She was born on 07 December 1984 in Minsk. She has been publish-ing her texts in Belarusian and foreign periodicals since 2000. Her works have been translated into Swedish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Bulgari-an, German, Russian, Ukrainian, English and other languages.

Hanna Yankuta is a Belarusian writer, translator, and theorist of literature. She is the author of the poetry project “Geology”/”Constitution” (2022), five children’s books including the series about the cat Šprot and the novel „Martha And Her Dream Of Snow“, and numerous articles and essays on literature and feminism.

Siarhiej Vahanaŭ is a poet, journalist, grandfather of the Belarusian journalist Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Bachváłava).
Siarhiej Vahanaŭ was born in 1941 in Kazan during evacuation. In 1944, the mother returned to liberated Minsk with her young son.
After graduating from the Department of History of Belarusian State University, Siarhiej Vahanaŭ worked as a teacher in a village, then – in various positions in national newspapers, was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper „Trud in Belarus“.
Since the early 1990s and until recently, he actively cooperated with the Belarusian independent mass media. Author of three collections of poems, narratives, and essays.
One of the founders, member and chairperson of the Commission on Ethics of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, member of the Belarusian PEN Center and the Union of Belarusian Writers. Creates texts in Russian and Belarusian.

Źmicier Zacharevič is a poet and bard. Born on March 20th, 1980 in Minsk. An active member of the national-democratic movement, his poems were published in Belarusian and Ukrainian media and periodicals. In 2015, he was the first Belarusian author who visited the front line near Mariupol at the invitation of Ukrainians, where he gave several improvised concerts for UNA-UNSO volunteers, National Guard soldiers and border guards.