Mykyta Ryzhykh is an author from Ukraine who now lives in Tromsø, Norway. He has been nominated (several times) for a Pushcart Prize and Touchstone Award and received a Ukrainian presidential scholarship for young authors. In 2022 he received a Ukrainian bachelor’s degree in journalism and communications. In the same year his Ukrainian-language collection of poems “Liber liberi“, was published by Gerda publishing. Mykyta was also a co-founder and curator of the literary competition #безпробiлiв (#withoutspaces) for Ukrainian teenagers.
His manuscript TOMBBOY will be published by Lost Telegram Press in early 2026. It is a work of concrete or visual poetry.
He has been published in many literary magazines in Ukrainian and English: Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, QLRS, The Crank, Chronogram, Monday mag, Occulum, Cerasus Poetry Magazine, Sarka, Cacti Fur, Backchannels Journal, Apocalipse confidential, Grey Sparrow Journal, O2 Haiku Literary Magazine, Packingtown Review, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The Rabbit, The Inflectionist Review, Eunoia Review, Chewers & Masticadores, Masticadores USA, Feed the holy, The Big Windows Review, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Third Wednesday, Dialogist, Consequence, Cool Beans Lit, WordCity Literary Journal, Poets Choice, BarBar, Slant: A Journal of Poetry, The Piker Press, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, Orbis, Litbreak Magazine, Monterey Poetry Review, Pato Journal, Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, Ranger magazine, Bending Genres Journal, Rat’s Ass Review, Cajun Mutt Press, Ice Floe Press, minor literatures, Audience Askew Literary Journal, Open Sewers, Tokyo poetry journal, Spirit Fire Review, The Gravity of the Thing, Ballast Journal, Star 82 Review and others.
Mykyta’s two-line verse (pr. published Password journal) was used as the title of a philosophical article by Terence Rajivan Edward (University of Manchester, PhD):
"Children's town
No one to fix a toy"
