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{{short description|Canadian novelist and poet (born 1952)}}
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'''Janice Kulyk Keefer''' (born 2 June 1952) is a Canadian novelist and poet. Of [[Ukrainian people|Ukrainian]] heritage, Kulyk Keefer often writes about the experiences of first-generation Canadian children of [[immigration|immigrants]].

==Biography==

She was born as Janice Kulyk on 2 June 1952 in [[Toronto]], Ontario.<ref name=encyclopedia>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Ledohowski |first=Lindy |date=28 February 2012 |title=Janice Kulyk Keefer |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/janice-kulyk-keefer/ |access-date=26 April 2021}}</ref> She studied [[English literature]] at the [[University of Toronto]], graduating with a BA.<ref name=encyclopedia /> She then studied at the [[University of Sussex]], where she received an [[MPhil]] and [[D.Phil]].<ref name=encyclopedia /> Following this, Keefer became an assistant professor of [[English studies]] at [[Université Sainte-Anne]] in [[Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia]].<ref name=encyclopedia /> She is a specialist in [[Modernist literature]].<ref name=encyclopedia /> In her literary work on Ukrainian-Canadian identity, she "rejects simplified notions of multiculturalism"<ref name=encyclopedia /> in preference to a Ukrainian transnational identity.<ref name=encyclopedia /> {{As of|2013}}, she is a professor of literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the [[University of Guelph]] in [[Guelph, Ontario]].<ref name=encyclopedia />

Her sister is the Canadian artist, [[Karen Kulyk]] and her son is the [https://www.decouplemedia.org/ Decouple Podcast] host Dr. Chris Keefer.

==Awards and honours==
*1987 [[1987 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Awards]], nominated, ''Under Eastern Eyes''
*1988 [[Books in Canada First Novel Award]], nominated, ''Constellations''
*1996 [[1996 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Awards]], nominated, ''The Green Library''
*1999 [[Marian Engel Award]], lifetime achievement 
*2006 Greifswald Canadian Studies Fellow in Residence, [[University of Greifswald]], Germany
*2008 [[Kobzar Literary Award]], ''The Ladies Lending Library''

==Bibliography==
* ''White of the Lesser Angels'' (1986)
* ''The Paris-Napoli Express'' (1986)
* ''Transfigurations'' (1987)
* ''Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction''
* ''Constellations'' 
* ''Reading Mavis Gallant'' (1989)
* ''Travelling Ladies'' (1992)
* ''Rest Harrow'' (1992)
* ''The Green Library'' 
* ''Marrying the Sea'' (1998)
* ''Kyiv, of Two Lands: New Visions'' (1998, anthology co-edited with [[Solemea Pavlychko]])
* ''Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family'' (1998)
* ''The Waste Zone'' (2002)
* ''Thieves'' (2004) 
* ''The Ladies' Lending Library'' (2007)
* ''Foreign Relations'' (2010)

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite journal |last=Babiak |first=Peter Roman |date=2003 |title=Toronto, Capital of Ukraine: The Ends of Desire and the Beginning of History in Janice Kulyk Keefer's The Green Library |url=https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/esc/article/view/10185/8282 |journal=English Studies in Canada |publisher=Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English |volume=29 |number=1–2 |pages=97–130|doi=10.1353/esc.2003.0010 |s2cid=141826428 |url-access=subscription }}
* {{cite book |last=Bigot |first=Corinne |year=2018 |editor1-last=Baisnée-Keay |editor1-first=Valerie |editor2-last=Bigot |editor2-first=Corinne |editor3-last=Alexoae-Zagni |editor3-first=Nicoleta |editor4-last=Bazin |editor4-first=Claire |chapter=Haunting Books and Stories in Janice Kulyk Keefer's Postethnic Family Memoir Honey and Ashes |title=Women's Life Writing and the Practice of Reading |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |isbn=978-3-319-75246-4}}
* {{cite journal |last=Howells |first=Coral Ann Howells |date=1992 |title=Janice Kulyk Keefer's Travelling Ladies (for Simone Vauthier) |journal=British Journal of Canadian Studies |publisher=[[Liverpool University Press]] |volume=7 |number=2 |pages=415–425}}
* {{cite journal |last=Latham |first=Monica |title=Thieving Facts and Reconstructing Katherine Mansfield's Life in Janice Kulyk Keefer's 'Thieves' |url=https://ejlw.eu/article/view/31417/28703 |journal=European Journal of Life Writing |year=2014 |volume=3 |pages=103–120 |publisher=International Auto/biography Association|doi=10.5463/ejlw.3.83 |doi-access=free }}<!-- name of association is correct -->
* {{cite journal |last=Nicholson |first=Colin |date=1992 |title=Grain of the actual: Janice Kulyk Keefer and her writing |journal=British Journal of Canadian Studies |publisher=[[Liverpool University Press]] |volume=7 |number=2 |pages=397–414}}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Saidero |editor-first=Deborah |title=Janice Kulyk Keefer: Essays on Her Works |series=Essential Writers Series |year=2010 |publisher=Guernica Editions |isbn=978-1-55071-310-7}}
* {{cite thesis |last=Tuchynska |first=Nataliya |date=2002 |title=From ethnic towards transnational: The green library by Janice Kulyk Keefer |url=https://lurepository.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/3223 |publisher=[[Lakehead University]]}}

==External links==
* [http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/features/feature.php?storyId=486 Interview, online from CBC Words at Large]
* [http://writerscafe.ca/book_blogs/writers/janice-kulyk-keefer_thieves.php Janice Kulyk Keeper at writerscafe.ca] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706213414/http://writerscafe.ca/book_blogs/writers/janice-kulyk-keefer_thieves.php |date=2011-07-06 }}
* [http://canadian-writers.athabascau.ca/english/writers/kkeefer/kkeefer.php The author] at English-Canadian Writers, [[Athabasca University]], by Deborah Saidero, University of Udine, 2016

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