Dr. Sasha Dovzhyk is a Ukrainian writer, scholar, and cultural manager. She holds MA degrees in Cultural Studies from National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and in Victorian Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, where she also earned a PhD in English and Comparative Literature in 2019. 

She taught at Birkbeck and University College London and published in peer-reviewed journals before leaving academia. From 2021 to 2023, she served as Special Projects Curator at Ukrainian Institute London, where she curated the writing residency Ukraine Lab, the online course Literatura, and several public outreach events. 

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Dovzhyk has refocused her work on documenting Ukrainian resistance. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, New Lines Magazine, CNN Opinion, and other outlets. In 2024, she became head of INDEX Institute for Documentation and Exchange in Lviv, an institution dedicated to producing situated knowledge about Ukraine in global contexts and pursuing historical and epistemic justice. 

Since 2021, Sasha has also served as editor-in-chief of the London Ukrainian Review. Her creative nonfiction book Apocalypse Baroque: Tales from Ukraine at War will be published by Extraordinary Books in September 2026.