Ellen McGinn

Born in Toronto, Ellen McGinn spent her childhood at various Air Force bases across Canada. After acting at Pier One Theatre in Halifax, she returned to Toronto in 1975 to work as part of a feminist theatre collective called Stargates Theatre, where she co-wrote, co-produced and performed in The Great Round and Preparation, both plays performed at the Bathurst Street Theatre. After moving west, she studied corporeal mime, then attended UBC and graduated in 1999 with an MFA in Creative Writing.

In 2002 her book of poetry, From Dark Horse Road, was published by Blue Lake Books. Her plays Comfort Me With Apples and Love Letters For Georgia have been produced in the Vancouver and Victoria Fringe Festivals. She has contributed an essay in the anthology Love Me True, edited by Jane Silcott and Fiona Lam, published by Caitlin Press. In 2022 her essay “Tabernacle” was published in The Fiddlehead.

Her play, Antarctica Welcomes International Women’s Year 1975, has recently been completed.