After winning first place at the regional Olympics for Ukrainian language and literature, she was able to study journalism at the Ivan Franko University of Lviv from 1972 to 1977 on the recommendation of the Writers’ Union.

Dissatisfied with the situation of false reporting, she gave up her journalism career and as of 1988 devoted herself to writing literary texts.

[1] The first fairy tale book of the author was published in 1990 under the title "Тисяча парасольок" (A Thousand Umbrellas).

In the same year, one of her the most famous book "Таємниця козацької шаблі" (The Mystery of the Cossack Sabre) was published.

The books of Zirka Menzatyuk have been published in Ukraine and in the United States, and have been awarded the Lesia Ukrainka Prize (2007).