Lily Hyde | Writer and Journalist
Lily Hyde's award-winning writing from Ukraine has been published in Politico, the Guardian, Atavist Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Lancet, and many other international media. She is the author of two novels.
What I write
I’m inspired by places, and love listening to people’s stories, trying to understand what they dream about, what makes them tick; wondering what our lives would be like if I’d been born in their place and they had been born in mine
I write longform journalism, essays, fiction and narrative non-fiction around a series of recurring themes, which have emerged from living and travelling in Ukraine – especially Crimea – and the east European and Eurasian region. Identity, collective memory and the sense of home are threads that run through my work. For over a decade I have covered war’s impact on health, culture, and daily life.
‘2000 Miles from Home’ published in Atavist Magazine took Second Prize (print) in the Bayeux Normandy-Calvados award for war correspondents in 2024 and was shortlisted for the True Story Award.
‘Left Behind: The War and Ukraine’s Elders’ published in AARP The Magazine won the 2023 Bronze Award, National Mature Media Awards.
Dream Land, my first novel, is the first novel in English about the 1944 Soviet deportation of the Crimean Tatars, and their return to their homeland in Crimea half a century later.