Maryna Sokolyan is a Ukrainian author. The critical reviews define her work as "uncommon event in a contemporary fiction", and draw attention to the exquisite and well-cultivated language and to the complex intellectual references towards English literature.
She was born 18 December 1979 in Poltava, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. In 2002 she graduated from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with an MA in sociology.