Grasya Oliyko stud­ied Fine Arts and Book Graph­ics at the Insti­tute of Pub­lish­ing and Print­ing at the Nation­al Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Ukraine ​“Igor Siko­rsky Kyiv Poly­tech­nic Insti­tute” in Kyiv, Ukraine. She illus­trates books for chil­dren and works with Ukrain­ian and inter­na­tion­al pub­lish­ing hous­es. Grasya is the author and illus­tra­tor of the pic­ture books The Sto­ry, Told by Zhu­ka and The Dress for Maru­sia. She illus­trates most­ly in Pro­cre­ate on an iPad.