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Dniprova Chaika (Liudmyla Oleksiivna Vasylevska-Berezina) was born on 1 November 1861 in the village of Zelenyi Yar, Domanivskyi district, Mykolaiv region, to a priest. She spent her childhood and youth in the south of Ukraine. After graduating from the Odesa Gymnasium in 1879, she began her teaching career first as a private teacher, then worked in rural schools in the Kherson province.

Dniprova Chaika began writing at the gymnasium. Some of her poems ("On the Death of Turgenev") were published in the Odesa Bulletin (1883). In 1885, two poems by Dniprova Chaika ("News" and "Song") and the story "Witch Doctor", which is close to a folk record, were first published in the Odesa almanac "Niva".

The writer's significant contribution to the development of children's literature is the poems "Winter", "Spring", "Lamentations of Children"; stories "Beetroot", "Drops - Travellers"; fairy tales "The Tale of the Sun and His Son", "Greek Fairy Tale". She published articles and reviews in the pedagogical press, actively collaborated in the magazine "Dzvynok", and was interested in folklore. In 1884, she presented three notebooks of Ukrainian folk songs sung in the Dnipro district of the Tavrycheska province to the VI Archaeological and Ethnographic Congress held in Odesa. Many of the songs were recorded by M. Lysenko, who composed several romances based on her words.