Kateryna Babkina (Ukrainian: Катерина Бабкіна) (born 22 July 1985) is a Ukrainian poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

[1] She attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv to study journalism and graduated in 2007, going on to work as a freelance journalist.

Babkina was the first Ukrainian author to have her readings at the Library of Congress, USA.

[citation needed] Her book My Grandfather Danced the Best won the 2021 Angelus Award.

[4] In 2022, Babkina's novella for children "Cappy and the Whale" was published in translation by Penguin Random House, UK.