She was born in
Mykolaiv, currently in
Stryi Raion of
Lviv Oblast, grew up in
Lviv and studied at a teaching seminary. Her father was Julian Schneider an employee of the district office, while her mother was Julia Łopuszańska. She made her first poetry attempts in Polish and Ukrainian under the guidance of her tutor . After graduating from the seminary, Ulyana Kravchenko began teaching in the town of Bóbrka. Her first published work was a story that appeared in the journal
Zoria. Kravchenko was active in the Ukrainian women's movement in Galicia. Women's liberation was a major theme in her poetry; she was considered to be the bard of the women's movement. She was also one of the first women teachers in Galicia. On November 22, 1886, she married Jan Ambroży Niementowski, head of the village school in Dolishnia Luzhok. They had three children: son Jerzy and daughters Teodora and Julia.
Jerzy was a painter and poet who wrote in Polish, and was murdered at the age of 29 by Ukrainians in
Yavoriv on November 28, 1918, during the
Polish-Ukrainian war, while organising Polish militia. == Selected works ==