Yaraslava Ananka studied journalism at the Belarusian State University and literature at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. In 2018 she completed her doctorate at the Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She worked as a lecturer for Russian literature at the Universität Innsbruck and has been a research assistant at the Humboldt-Universität since 2020. She contributed a text to Belarus! Das weibliche Gesicht der Revolution (Belarus! The Revolution’s Female Face).