Sally Ito

Sally Ito is a writer and translator. She was born in Taber, Alberta, and studied creative writing at UBC. She has published three books of poetry, Frogs in the Rain Barrel, Season of Mercy, and Alert to Glory, as well as a collection of short stories titled Floating Shore. In 2018, she published a cultural memoir, The Emperor’s Orphans.

Ito has also translated and published the Japanese children’s poet Misuzu Kaneko by drawing on her years of study in Japan and experience of translating contemporary Japanese poetry. She lives in Winnipeg and teaches creative writing at Canadian Mennonite University.

(Sally’s photo is by Marlis Funk)