Ana (Anastasiia) Denysenko is a 19-year-old poet from Kyiv, Ukraine (in a process of moving to Budapest, Hungary). She self-published her first poetry chapbook in 2018. Ana’s work covers political, social, and cultural issues in Ukraine and abroad. She is a member of the New York City-based poetry group "Thursday Morning Poets". As a group, they appeared at the NYC poetry festival in summer 2021. Ana is also AS (ankylosing spondylitis) fighter, she dedicates parts of her writing to other patients with the same diagnosis by telling her own story and the stories of other people.