Irena Karpa (袉褉械薪邪 袣邪褉锌邪) graduated from the Kyiv National Linguistic University, majoring in English and French. Since 1997 she has been the front woman of the Qarpa band, specializing in a fusion of industrial music, punk-rock, hardcore and psychedelic trip-hop. Her first novel Znes Palionogo was published in 2000. After a long trip to the Southern Asia, she published another novel Freud would weep which was nominated for a prestigious prize. Since 2005 Irena has been working as a host at several major Ukrainian TV-channels and acting as a model for Playboy and Penthouse. Irena Karpa was named the WRITER OF THE YEAR-2005. Freud would cry was the finalist of Book of the Year award of the BBC Ukraine.