Originally from Edmonton, Steffany Marynovska holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Alberta, where she also studied Ukrainian. She was awarded an Oxford University Press WRITE Prize in her fourth year. After continuing her studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Steffany went on to work as a zoo biologist and at a marine mammal rescue facility. Her first short story was published in The Fiddlehead, having received an honourable mention in their literary contest. She apprenticed under Jen Sookfong Lee at the Writer’s Studio Online at Simon Fraser University in 2020, following her graduation from the program the previous year. In 2025 she was accepted to the Tin House Autumn Online Novel Workshop, where she worked under Jessamine Chan, and to Eley Williams’s Writing Literary Short Fiction course (instructed by Camilla Grudova) at the Granta Writers’ Workshop. She is currently attending the Creative Writing Graduate Certificate program at Humber. Steffany recently completed a novel, an excerpt of which was shortlisted for the PRISM international 2025 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction. She lives in Ottawa.