Антон

Anton Kutselyk
Storyteller
In my earliest memory, the sun breaks through the window and wakes me up
with a splash of gold. Still barely awake, I can't help but follow it outside—trying
to get closer to that unreachable source of joy and energy.

The sun in that memory isn't just any sun anywhere. It's the sun shining in the
sky above my mother's village in Ukraine. I'd only ever been there three times,
and all of them in the first ten years of my life.

Having been born in Lithuania, I grew up familiar with a different kind of sun—a
colder and more distant star that hid under the grey blanket most of the time. So,
even in that infinite unreachability, the Ukrainian sun felt so much warmer,
brighter, and closer. And so, as strange and reckless as it is, all my life I wanted to
bring myself closer to that hot sphere of plasma. Maybe that's why—after seven
years of having moved here—I still find myself in Kyiv today, living under that gift
of the Ukrainian sun every day.

I think I will be thinking about this journey towards the sun on my
deathbed—how this story is uniquely mine and no one could ever replicate it. And
writing it, I can be free to use em dashes as much as I want because no AI could
ever produce it. It was I who had woken up that morning under the sun—it was
no AI.

But to stay under this beautiful sun, I must continue my work— and so I channel
this journey into helping others discover and share their own stories

Summary of my work
From 2024 to 2025 — Publication Editor at Medium — EVROPA was a
Medium publication about European life, travel, and politics. At its peak, the
publication was followed by around 1,000 readers. As its founder, I worked with
about ten to fifteen active writers whose work I proofread, edited, and published
throughout the year. The publication no longer exists because I left Medium and
deleted all my content there.
From 2022 to 2025 — Blog Writer at Medium — When Russia invaded
Ukraine, I began writing a personal blog on Medium about the war in Ukraine.
For the next three years, I'd become the loudest Ukrainian voice on the platform.
I wrote and self-edited hundreds of texts and was often featured by Medium's
editors in newsletters and on the front page. Before leaving the platform, I had
around 2,000 readers.
From 2019 to 2024 — Content Curator at Medium — My role involved
reading, analyzing, and assessing texts published on the platform. I read dozens
of texts daily and selected the best pieces for editorial distribution.
From 2018 to 2019 — Content Creator and Editor at EXANTE — I was
responsible for producing, translating, and editing every possible content at this
company: internal documentation, emails, presentations, newsletters, landing
pages, slogans, and other marketing copy. I also contributed to brainstorming
and naming new products.
From 2017 to 2018 — Writer and Researcher at Chambers and
Partners — My daily routine involved writing emails and conducting phone
interviews with lawyers and their clients to gather information for the annually
published legal guide. I analyzed collected data, ranked law firms and lawyers,
wrote editorial commentary, and prepared research reports for editors.

Education
I hold a first-class bachelor's degree in Law from Lancaster University. My
elective modules focused on human rights and political theory.
Beyond traditional education, I spent many years in theatre, studied piano and
music theory, attended acrobatics classes, and later found a particular interest in
analyzing and reviewing poetry and literary prose.

Other Experience
●​ I briefly worked as a customer support agent for Google.
●​ I write fiction and I am currently trying to publish my war memoir based on
my blog texts.
●​ I am fluent in Ukrainian, English, Russian, and Lithuanian.

Contacts
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