Sarah Klassen (born 6 October 1932) is a Canadian writer and retired educator living in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
[4] Sarah Klassen was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently resides there.
Sarah Klassen taught English in the public school system in Winnipeg, and at summer institutes in Lithuania and Ukraine.
[1] Klassen has been recognized as part of a flourishing of Mennonite novelists and poets emerging in the 1980s.
[5] 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.