A remarkable translator of Ukrainian literature, who lived in Canada but signed a contract with Dnipro Publishers  (KYIV) to do translation work and rendered not only folk tales but classics by Ukrainian authors into English, among them works by Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, Olha Kobylianska, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky and Vasyl Stefanyk. ​