{{short description|Canadian writer}} {{Infobox writer | name = Sally Ito | birth_name = | image = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1964}} | birth_place = Taber, Alberta, Canada | occupation = writer, professor | period = 1990s–present | notableworks = | spouse = | website = | alma_mater = }}

'''Sally Ito''' (born 1964) is a Canadian writer, translator, and artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sally Ito|publisher=Poetry in Voice|url=https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/poets/sally-ito|accessdate=September 1, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sally Ito|publisher=Winnipeg International Writers Festival|url=https://thinairwinnipeg.ca/writers/sally-ito/|accessdate=September 1, 2022}}</ref>

==Career== Ito was born in 1964 in Taber, Alberta.<ref>{{cite web|title=Asian Heritage in Canada|publisher=Toronto Metropolitan University|url=https://library.torontomu.ca/asianheritage/authors/ito/|accessdate=September 1, 2022}}</ref> She grew up in Edmonton and began writing poetry as a teenager.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sally Ito|publisher=Poetry in Voice|url=https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/poets/sally-ito|accessdate=September 1, 2022}}</ref> She currently teaches creative writing at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sally Ito|publisher=Canadian Mennonite University|url=https://www.cmu.ca/about/faculty/574|accessdate=September 1, 2022}}</ref> Ito is the author of four books of poetry, ''Frogs in the Rain Barrel'' (1996), ''Season of Mercy'' (1999), ''Alert to Glory'' (2011), and ''Heart's Hydrography'' (2022). She has also published a collection of short stories called ''Floating Shore'' in 1998. She is perhaps best known for her 2018 memoir ''The Emperor's Orphans'' about the 4,000 Japanese Canadians who were repatriated to Japan during World War II.<ref>{{cite web|title=13 Canadian books to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day|publisher=CBC.ca|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/13-canadian-books-to-mark-the-75th-anniversary-of-d-day-1.5163124|accessdate=September 1, 2022}}</ref>

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