Anna Pavlyk (26 January 1855 - 13 October 1928) was a Ukrainian social and cultural activist and writer, an active participant in the women's movement in Galicia.

[1][2] Anna Pavlyk was born in Monastyrske village, now part of the city of Kosiv, then in the Austrian Empire.

Pavlyk also wrote poems in which she strongly spoke out against the injustice of the authorities, the extortion of priests (Dishonesty, Pope's Conscience, Judgment of Fools), journalistic articles (A sample of a peasant farmer from Kosiv), recorded folklore.

[4] Mykhailo Drahomanov's sister - Olga Drahomanova-Kosach (literary pseudonym Olena Pchilka), who met Anna Pavlyk through Ivan Franko, was interested in the work of the talented writer.

[5] In the 1920s, Pavlyk, who remained single, helped orphans from village Monastyrske, and intended to build an orphanage and a house on specially purchased land where sick Ukrainian writers could come for rest and creative work.