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This article is about the contemporary Canadian children's author.
For the 19th Century English author of books about women, see Sarah Stickney Ellis. Sarah Ellis (born 19 May 1952) is a Canadian children's writer and librarian.
She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and attended the University of British Columbia where she received her Bachelor of Arts honours in 1973 and a Master of Library Science in 1975.
She also attended the Centre for the Study of Children's Literature, Simmons College in Boston in 1980.
She has been a librarian in Toronto and Vancouver.
She has also written reviews for Quill and Quire.
She teaches writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a masthead reviewer for The Hornbook. Ellis has said that she gets her ideas from "Memories, anecdotes people tell me, radio interviews, dreams, newspaper articles, family stories, being curious, observing the world, paying attention."Ellis is a strong advocate for children’s literature and she belongs to many different clubs and unions such as the Writers' Union of Canada, the Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable, Children's Writers and Illustrators and many more.She is an out lesbian.

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