[2] In 2014, she completed MA in Comparative literature at Dartmouth College, followed by a PhD in 2020 in Slavonic studies at the University of Cambridge[1][3] on the topic of songs of the Russo-Ukrainian War created by affected local communities.

[5] Her fourth book, the bilingual publication Pray to the Empty Wells was strongly influenced by Ukrainian folk culture and nature.

[1] In 2019, she was a coeditor of 120 pages of "Sodom": the first anthology of queer literature published in Ukraine.

[4] Shuvalova has translated, among others, Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2016) and Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (2019).

[4] Shuvalova has received a number of awards for her own work as well as translation, including the first prize in the Smoloskyp Literary Competition in 2010[1][4] and the Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize[1][2][5] for translating Sergei Chegra's poem The Prayer of the Touch.