Liudmyla Kovalenko Ivchenko (Людмила Коваленко Івченко) was a Ukrainian and Ukrainian American writer and radio journalist. She was born in Mariupol' (Russian Empire, now Ukraine). She studied in Kyiv, where she met and married her husband, the writer Mykhailo Ivchenko, who died as a result of the Stalin purges in 1938. She left Kyiv in 1943, spent time as a displaced person in Germany, and resettled in the United States. She worked as a writer and journalist for the Ukrainian service of the Voice of America starting in the late 1940s. She was also the author (under her maiden name Liudmyla Kovalenko) of a number of short story collections, a novel ("Tykha voda"), a collection of plays, and the science fiction fantasy "Rik 2245". She was an organizer and the first president of the United Ukrainian Orthodox Sisterhoods, and served as editor-in-chief of "Ukraina: Entsyklopediia dlia molodi", published by the UUOC after Ivchenko's death.