Ellen Jane Seligman (died March 25, 2016) was an American-Canadian editor and publisher.
[1] Seligman was born in New York City and attended the University of Wisconsin, where she received a Bachelor of Arts.
She moved to Canada in 1976, where she eventually took a job with McClelland and Stewart as a senior editor and became their editorial director of fiction by 1987.
[2][3] During this time she worked with authors such as Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Rohinton Mistry, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart and Alice Munro, and in 2012 became the vice-president of McClelland and Stewart.
[1][3] At the time of her death Seligman was seen as one of Canada's top literary editors.