Hanna Arsenych-Baran

Hanna Vasylivna Arsenych-Baran was a Ukrainian novelist, poet, school teacher and writer of prose. She was the author of more than a hundred textbooks on the Ukrainian language and literature as well as multiple dictionaries. Arsenych-Baran was a teacher who taught the Ukrainian language and literature in Chernihiv and educated students at the K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University. She won the Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky Regional Prize and the Leonid Glibov Regional Prize. Arsenych-Baran was a member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine, become chair of its Chernihiv regional organisation in November 2016.