Svetlana Viktorivna Ischenko (Ukrainian: Світлана Вікторівна Іщенко, born July 30, 1969, Mykolaiv, Ukraine) — poet,[1] translator,[2] stage actress,[3] teacher,[4] artist.

[9] She played a number of significant characters from classic Ukrainian and European plays,[10] among them Marusia (Marusia Churai by Lina Kostenko), Catherine (Catherine by Taras Shevchenko), Motrya (Kaydash's Family by Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky), Yaryna (Where There are people, There is Sin by І. Tobilevych), Ryna (Myna Mazaylo by Mykola Kulish), Prince (Dregs by Janusz Glovatsky), Julie (The Family Weekend by Jean Poiret), and Countess Rosine (Marriage of Figaro by P.

[14] Svetlana Ischenko is a co-translator of English versions of poetry by Dmytro Kremin, winner of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian National Literary Prize.

[15] Ischenko's field of work in Canada is creating and teaching children's programs in visual arts, ballet, creative dance, jazz, hip-hop, and musical theatre at Recreational Centres in North Vancouver.

[24] Ischenko's co-translations of the poetry of Dmytro Kremin, winner of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian National Literary Prize, have appeared in well-known literary magazines such as London Magazine (London, England, 2007), Prism International (Vancouver, Canada, 2007), and Hayden’s Ferry Review (Arizona, US, 2009), in the trilingual collection Two Shores (Mykolaiv, Iryna Hudym Publisher, 2007)[25] and in the book Poems From The Scythian Wild Field (Ekstasis Editions, Victoria, B.C., Canada, 2016) -- a selection of the poetry of Dmytro Kremin translated into English by Svetlana Ischenko and Russell Thornton[26] …Where a country lies under a willow tree, Where the steppe spreads wide, There is your motherland, lad, The sun and the crepe of the sky.