Kateryna Babkina (Ukrainian: Катерина Бабкіна) (born 22 July 1985) is a Ukrainian poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. The winner of Angelus Central European Literature Award (2021).

Babkina was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine in 1985.^[1] She attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv to study journalism and graduated in 2007, going on to work as a freelance journalist.^[2][3]

She worked as a contributing editor for Esquire in Ukraine (2012-2014). She also has had articles published in Focus, Business and Le Monde amongst others.

Babkina was the first Ukrainian author to have her readings at the Library of Congress, USA.^{[citation needed]}

Her book My Grandfather Danced the Best won the 2021 Angelus Award.^[4] In 2022, Babkina's novella for children "Cappy and the Whale" was published in translation by Penguin Random House, UK. In April 2023, the e-book "Mom, do you remember?" was published in Ukrainian (Warstwy, Poland).