Ivan Malkovych is a Ukrainian poet and publisher. Born May 10th, 1961 in Bereziv Nyzhniy in Ivano-Frankivsk region. He graduated from the violin class of the Ivano-Frankivsk Music Academy and from the Faculty of Philology at the Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv. Ivan Malkovych has been the member of the Writer鈥檚 Union of Ukraine since 1986. He is the author of seven poetry collections: 鈥淭he White Stone鈥� (1984), 鈥淭he Key鈥� (1988), 鈥淧oems鈥� (1992), 鈥淲ith an Angel on My Shoulder鈥� (1997), 鈥淧oems for Winter鈥� (2006), 鈥淎ll is Near鈥� (2010, 2011 鈥� 2-nd complemented edition), 鈥淭he Plantain鈥� (2013). Ivan Malkovych is the editor, compiler, author and a translator of dozens of books for children. 鈥淗e is a man, maniacally devoted to the idea of 鈥渢he Ukrainian book of especially good quality鈥�. (The Book Review, 鈩�1, 2002). Poems of Ivan Malkovych have been translated into English, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, Bengali, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Georgian, Slovak, Slovenian languages.