Alina Sarnatska
Alina Sarnatska (Kyiv, Ukraine) is a writer, radio host, PhD in social work and war veteran. From March 2022 to July 2024, Alina Sarnatska served as a combat medic in the infantry. Before the full-scale invasion, she worked in the civil society sector, pursued doctoral studies, and wrote texts.
In 2025, she was a Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. That same year, she was a finalist for the Aurora Drama Award (Poland), received two awards at the ATYPOWO Festival in Wrocław, and won the Drama.ua competition (Ukraine). In 2024, she was awarded the Lipnevyi Med Prize and the Week of Contemporary Plays Prize (both in Ukraine), and held a VILNO fellowship (Other Education / Robert Bosch Stiftung). In 2022, she founded Teplonosiї, a charitable organization.