Sarah Klassen

alt=Sarah Klassen is shown reading from The Russian Daughter at the book's launch at McNally Robinson Boookstore, Winnipeg in 2023. Klassen has short grey hair, glasses, and light coloured skin. They are wearing a collared shirt in a dark red print. They are behind a wooden podium with the words McNally Robinson printed on it. The store's bookshelves are visible behind the reader. So is a banner with the bookstore's logo. Sarah Klassen reading at the launch of The Russian Daughter at McNally Robinson Bookstore Winnipeg, 19 January 2023. Sarah Klassen (born 6 October 1932) is a Canadian writer and retired educator living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Klassen's first volume of poetry, Journey to Yalta, was awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1989. Klassen is the recipient of Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and Klassen's novel, The Wittenbergs, was awarded the Margaret McWilliams Award for popular history. A subject of Klassen's writing (in Journey to Yalta, The Wittenbergs and The Russian Daughter) is the experiences and locations of Russian Mennonite settlements in the early part of the twentieth century, a topic relayed to her in stories by her own mother.

Sarah Klassen has served as poetry editor for Prairie Fire and editor of Sophia magazine.