Aria Kuunvaara
Creative writer & storyteller for articles and long-form.
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I started this year by asking myself how I could grow faster.
I’m 26, and honestly... I’ve already done a lot. Still, I’m restless in the best way. I want to keep learning, keep moving.
The biggest shift in my mindset is simple:
I no longer care what other people think of me.
For...
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It’s getting tougher for many of us. Alongside my writing, I have a startup focused on humanitarian mine clearance. The work carries responsibility and meaning, but the early stages are financially demanding. At times the reality is simple: I need writing work...
In October 2024, I performed at Mine Clearance and Poetry, an event organized by a literary and cultural association. The theme brought together two rarely combined worlds.
I performed poems shaped by lived experience including work connected to Ukraine ut also few abstract ones....
Writing Poetry Shaped by War Experience
A significant part of my writing is poetry rooted in real-world experience, including work connected to conflict and war. These texts are not written to shock, but to process, observe, and translate lived realities into language.
Earlier...
Yesterday, I wrote an annual report for a humanitarian demining organization I own. The challenge was to communicate the organization’s work in a way that is transparent and credible, while carefully avoiding the disclosure of sensitive details.
Writing about mine clearance...
