About the book
About the authors
Authors
Evhenyi Evtushenko
Our contemporary, a poet by the grace of God, now known worldwide, Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born at Zima station in the Irkutsk region in the family of geologist and amateur poet Alexander Gangnus. He published his first poem in the newspaper "Soviet Sport." His first book of poems "Scouts of the Future" was published in 1952, and in the same year he became the youngest member of the USSR Writers' Union. In 1963, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of more than 150 books, which have been translated into many languages.
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Yvan Abramov
While above us shines a simple sun, and somewhere nearby a stream laughs, search everywhere, let each one search,— and you will find Him one day.
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Vera Bagina
She was born and raised in eastern Ukraine. After school, having received specialized education, she began working as an accountant. Once, an extraordinary event occurred in her life that became the beginning of her creative activity. She was offered a job as a nanny for a six-year-old boy. And Vera, despite her economic education, unexpectedly agreed. The child – named Vova – turned out to be lively and curious, constantly asking his nanny to tell him various stories and fairy tales. "When I ran out of all the stories I knew, I had to make up new ones on the spot," Vera recalls. "And when I started composing, I noticed that I myself was interested in what I was telling, especially considering that I had never engaged in writing before." Over time, Vera and Vova accumulated a whole collection of interesting stories and fairy tales. That's how a children's book was born.
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Maryna Belovol
She was born and raised in Ukraine. Currently lives in the city of Pensacola, Florida. She writes poetry and prose in Russian and Ukrainian languages. Her works have been published in many Christian periodicals.
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Aleksandr Valuiskyi
Alexander Valuiskyi lives in the USA, California. For the past ten years, he has been working as a Protestant chaplain in hospitals, hospices, and correctional facilities in the state of California, and teaches World Religions at Phoenix University.
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Vyktor Verkhovod
Victor Verkhovod was born in 1961 in the city of Frunze, now Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In 1980, he graduated from an art school in Uzbekistan, in the city of Tashkent, with a specialization as a sculptor-teacher. He worked in the Art Foundation as a workshop manager and at the Aesthetic Center as a sculpture studio instructor. In 1997, he emigrated to the USA and lives in Sacramento, where he continues to work on sculptural and painting projects for public buildings and parks, as well as as a sculptor at the ceramic company Gladding McBean. He actively tries his hand at literature. Since 1997, his works have been published in Russian and American editions. Since 2006, he has been a member of the literary association LOTOS. He is currently preparing a collection of poems and stories for publication.
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Shyrynai Dosova
Shyrynai was born in Southern Kazakhstan in 1957, in a Muslim family, but has been living in Moscow for 45 years. By profession, she is an accountant-economist. She came to believe in Jesus Christ thanks to a person who was convicted for his faith and spent 12 years in prison. She has been working in the "Light in the East" mission since 1987. She has been teaching at the Institute for Inductive Bible Study since 2000. She is the author of the book "My Eternal Spring," which has been translated into seven languages. Articles and stories by this author are also published in the magazine "Faith and Life" and in the "International Christian Newspaper." With Shyrynai Dosova's direct participation, three churches were established: in Moscow (1991), in Uzbekistan (1999), and in Kazakhstan (2005).
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Vera Kyrychenko
Vera Kyrychenko was born in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. She repented at the age of 16. At that time, her father was serving as a presbyter of the local church. She was baptized the following year. She lived in Kyiv for two years, where she began to try writing poems. She read poems at church services. A little later, when her own poems began to acquire a certain style, she read them in large gatherings and small groups. At first, these were verses for youth fellowships, for friends on birthdays. After moving to America in 2001, Vera Kyrychenko began writing poems for the church newspaper. The changes and complexities of life were often reflected in poems that expressed the state of her heart. In 2019, she released her first collection of poems, which she called "Maple Leaf." She is currently preparing a second collection for publication.
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Yvan Leshchuk
Yvan Leshchuk is the author of the books "Ecology of the Spirit," "Labyrinths of Spirituality," and "Confession." He is one of the contributors to the "Slavic Bible Commentary." He is a presbyter, holds a PhD in Technical Sciences, and is a publicist. He hosts radio programs "Facets of Life," "Family and School," and "Mental Health." He is a specialist in working with parents (at Community Outreach Academy school) and in mental health (at Slavic Assistance Center). He immigrated to the USA from Odessa in 2002.
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Aleksandr Lysafyn
He was born on February 5, 1957, in Voronezh. He received higher education at the Faculty of Architecture of the Voronezh Institute of Civil Engineering. He is now a designer and master cabinetmaker. In his youth, he read Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem "Bratsk Hydroelectric Station" and, deeply impressed, "took up the pen." Twice, still in Soviet times, he attempted to publish in the magazines "Youth" and "Spark" – but alas, after rejections, he abandoned writing for a long time. In 2010, when joining the regional writers' union "Military Commonwealth," he published two collections of early poems – "Reflections" and "Glimmers." Since 2015, having become an active (hundreds of thousands of readings) internet user, he "got into writing" and is ready to publish a 4-volume collection.
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Dyna Maiatskaia
Dina writes about herself: "I am Ukrainian, originally from Kharkiv. We have been living in America for 17 years. I am married, we have 5 children and 16 (so far) grandchildren. I have been writing poetry since childhood, but they were most likely amateur. I never studied versification anywhere, I write, one might say, by the inspiration of my soul. The first collection was published by the Odessa publishing house ‘Bogomyslie,' which I called ‘All This is From Heaven,' because it is truly not mine, but from heaven! I also have three collections: ‘Dawn of Sunrise,' ‘Heavenly Scatterings' and a children's book ‘God's Birds' (published by ‘Ruth'). I publish on websites ‘For You,' ‘Stihi.ru,' on Facebook and in other Christian groups. On ‘Odnoklassniki' I have a personal group ‘The World of My Soul,' where I post my poems. In addition to poems, I write songs: lyrics, music, arrangement, performance – all mine. All glory only to my Lord, who gave me all this from heaven! If anyone is interested, the songs can be found on YouTube, on Facebook and in my group. I invite everyone on a journey through the pages of my poetry! I will be glad to each reader! God's blessings to all!"
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Tatiana Moroz
Tatiana Moroz was born in the city of Cherkasy in Ukraine. At the age of 18, in 1985, after finishing school, she moved to Kyiv and got married. In 1994, with her husband Gregory and two small sons, Andrei and Timothy, they moved to Albany, New York, USA. Before that, they worked in Ukraine at the "Word of Life" Mission (Word of Life International). In the USA, a daughter was born. She graduated from Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia with a bachelor's degree in multidisciplinary sciences: management information systems and religion. Since 2003, she has been working as a database administrator in the main financial office of New York State, Office of the State Comptroller (New York State Office of the Office of State Comptroller).
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Oleh Miuller
He lives in the Zabaykalsky Krai, in the wonderful city of Chita. "Poetry, of course, plays a big role in my life," the author writes about himself, "poetry took over my consciousness, starting with the birth of my children, to whom I dedicated my first poetic lines. And later, at the age of about forty, I began to take poetry even more seriously"... And now the author already has four published books and a fifth is being prepared for release. Oleg Müller has become a member of the "Russian Writers' Union," but, as before, earns his daily bread by servicing the city's combined heat and power plants. The work is very hard, but it doesn't interfere with the poet's lyrical mood, rather the opposite!
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Yuryi Panasenko
He was born on August 17, 1953, in the city of Kherson, Ukraine. He has always been interested in the humanities: literature, music, history, geography. He listened with interest and wrote down much of what his father and mother, as well as his grandparents, told about their lives. Around 2015, he decided to write something like a family chronicle.
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Andreas Patts
He was born on August 17, 1966, in the city of Pavlodar (Kazakhstan; then USSR). At the age of 13, he began singing in the choir of the Evangelical Christian Baptist (ECB) church in Pavlodar. In 1984, he was baptized in the same church and in the same year was drafted into the Soviet army. In 1984-86, due to his refusal to take the military oath, he served in a construction battalion in the city of Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region.
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Konstantyn Prokhorov
Lives in Omsk. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). He has been published in journals: "Facets," "Continent," "Theological Thinking" and others. Author of nine books published in Russia, Germany, Great Britain, and the USA. Silver laureate of the National Literary Award "Golden Pen of Russia 2008" in the "prose" nomination. Recipient of the Shakespeare medal and diploma for literary translations (2016).
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Vasylyi Puhovkyn-Dneprovskyi
He was born in the USSR to believing parents. His father came to faith and was baptized in a Baptist church in 1943 under the Germans. His mother came from a family of Molokans. She believed and was baptized after the war. The author says about himself: "Since childhood, I remember meetings and conversations of my parents with Christians of various denominations. Disagreements never turned into discord and broken relationships. I didn't write poems in school.
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Aleksandr Savchenko
Savchenko Alexander Petrovich is a doctor and theologian, clergyman, poet and writer, author of bestsellers 'Diamonds of Thought,' 'Companion of a Christian Doctor,' 'Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge,' and 'Pearls of Thought.' He graduated from the Mariupol State University Medical Institute and the Odessa Theological Seminary. He served as a pastor and missionary in Ukraine and the USA.
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Natalia Shevchenko
Natalia Shevchenko is a poet, composer, director, and TV/radio host. She was born in November 1976, in Russia, in the Krasnodar region. She began writing poetry at the age of 9. She graduated from the University of Culture and Arts in Krasnodar, where she received higher education and a specialization as a director. She came to faith in God at the age of 18, in 1995. She is a laureate of the international TV festival "Save and Preserve."
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Aleksei Sheyn
Alexei Sheyn is a writer and playwright. Author of the novel "Seven Stones" ("Sem Kamyanёŭ"), which received the European Science Fiction Society award in the "Best Debut" nomination (Dortmund, 2017). Winner of the Exlibris non-fiction literature competition. Finalist of the national competition for the best book for children and teenagers "Tsyotka Prize." Awarded the diploma "Top Five Belarusian Authors." Member of the Union of Belarusian Writers, the Belarusian PEN Center, and the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
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