Ksenia Maryniak, MA, C.Tran.

Started: 2003-10-01

After her undergraduate education at Carleton Univ. and experience in the private sector with Hewlett-Packard, Ksenia was a staff editor on the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (vols. 3–5, 1993) at the Univ. of Toronto before moving to Ukraine for a decade, where she completed an M.A. and worked at the Univ. of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy while consulting for CIDA, USAID, and international NGOs. Accepted to do a PhD in the Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Dept. at UAlberta, Ksenia returned to Edmonton in 2002. Since October 2003 she has been in a variety of editor roles in the Faculty of Arts—including managing editor with the Baikal Archaeology Project (Anthropology), producing 5 volumes of research results in 7 years; production editor and journal manager for the Canadian Studies in Population journal (Sociology); editor at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (since 2016); and consulting editor at the Kule Folklore Centre (MLCS). Attested as a UK–EN translator in 1993 and certified in 2007, Ksenia is also a member of the Literary Translators Association of Canada and a recipient of the Peterson Literary Fund's inaugural Translated Book Award (2021).