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 several editor roles in the Faculty of Arts—including managing editor with the Baikal Archaeology Project (Anthropology), producing five volumes of research results in seven years for CCI Press' Northern Hunter-Gatherers Research Series; production editor and journal manager for Canadian Studies in Population (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).

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2026-08-11 to 2026-08-29

Professional development retreat as one of four translation fellows in the inaugural cohort of the Translating Ukraine Residency, hosted by the Kolegium Europy Wschodniej at the historic Wojnowice Castle in southwestern Poland. Bringing a number of projects to their final stages while exchanging knowledge and experience with colleagues from Melbourne, Berlin, and Kyiv. As part of the KEW’s established Archipelagos fellowship program, the residency fosters daily exchange—across languages, traditions, and practices—while building a shared commitment to literary translation as cultural dialogue.

Translating Ukraine Residency

Oleksandr Pankieiev, ed.

Hannover. 2025 January;

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Valerii Anan'iev (Markus), transl. by Ksenia Chyz

Kyiv. 2024 August;

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Serhiy Synhayivsky, transl. by Ksenia Chyz

ellipsemagazine.com (LTAC, Montreal). 2024 May; 94

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Leonid Korownyk, transl. by Ksenia Maryniak and Serhiy Synhaivsky

Toronto. 2022 January;

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Iryna Shatokhina and Yuri Shapoval; subtitles by Ernest Gyidel and Ksenia Maryniak

YouTube. 2020 February;

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Volodymyr Viatrovych, transl. by Ksenia Maryniak

Toronto. 2020 January;

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Simone Attilio Bellezza

Edmonton. 2019 January;

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Volodymyr Kravchenko, ed.

Edmonton. 2017 January;

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Orest Subtelny, Orest Dzulynsky, Tania Dzulynsky, Oksana Zakydalsky

Toronto. 2016 January;

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Rev. Athanasius McVay

Edmonton. 2014 January; 10.1080/00085006.2019.1593021

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Jurij Hawryluk, transl. by Ksenia Maryniak

Toronto. 2013 January;

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Mikhail G. Turov, transl. edited by Ksenia Maryniak and Andrzej Weber

Edmonton. 2010 January;

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Rt. Rev. Jurij Kowalsky, compiled and transl. by Ksenia Maryniak

Edmonton. 2008 January;

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Ksenia Maryniak

Edmonton. 2008 January; 5 10.7939/R3ZG6GK40

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Anna Sirina

Edmonton. 2006 January;

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Dmytro Stepovyk, transl. by Ksenia Maryniak

Kiev. 2004 January;

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Yuri Khymych and Yuri Belichko, transl. by Ksenia Maryniak-Ovcharenko

Kiev. 1999 January;

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Compiled by Vira Vlasenko, transl. by Ksenia Maryniak

Kiev. 1999 January;

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Compiled by Vira Vlasenko, transl. by Ksenia Maryniak

Kiev. 1998 January;

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Compiled by Vira Vlasenko; essays by Mykhailo Braichevsky, Ihor Bondar-Zbruch, and Halyna Sevruk transl. by Ksenia Maryniak

Kiev. 1996 January;