She was the author of two novels and a children's book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award[1] and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.

[4] After completing a degree in computer science in Lviv,[5] Amelina started her career in IT before becoming a full-time writer and poet in 2015.

[7][8] In 2016, Amelina published a book for children called Хтось, або водяне серце (Somebody, or Water Heart).

[5] In 2017, she published a novel, Дім для Дома[5] (Dom's Dream Kingdom), about the family of a Soviet colonel who in the 1990s lived in the former childhood apartment in Lviv of the Polish Jewish author Stanisław Lem.

In 2018, she took part in 84th World PEN Congress in India as a delegate from Ukraine and gave a speech on Ukrainian filmmaker and political prisoner in Russia Oleg Sentsov.

[17] After the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, she worked as a war crimes researcher for Truth Hounds, a Ukrainian organization.

[17] In September 2022, while doing research in the Izium region, she uncovered the war diary of fellow Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who had been killed by the occupying forces in March 2022.

[17] On 27 June 2023, she was injured during the Russian attack on Kramatorsk while she was dining at RIA Pizza together with Héctor Abad, Sergio Jaramillo and Catalina Gómez.