Ellen Schwartz is the author of 18 award-win­ning books for chil­dren, as well as one non-fic­tion book for adults, a col­lec­tion of pro­files of women singer-song­writ­ers. Ellen’s children’s books range from pic­ture books through mid­dle-grade nov­els and young adult fic­tion and infor­ma­tion books. In addi­tion to writ­ing books, Ellen works as a cor­po­rate writer and edi­tor and as a free­lance mag­a­zine writer. She has pub­lished hun­dreds of mag­a­zine arti­cles. Ellen has taught cre­ative writ­ing class­es for many years at the col­lege and uni­ver­si­ty lev­els. She lives in Burn­a­by, British Columbia.