Ellen Frank is a BC based writer and activist.

She was born in Hoboken, NJ in 1947. She moved to Canada in 1969 where she has spent most of her adult life in Vancouver, BC occupying herself as a politically active feminist, a travel agent, and a mother. During that time she lived in communes and housing co-ops, and actively organized around the issues of daycare, violence against women and disability rights. She has also lived in Israel, and has happily been a member of the Or Shalom Jewish congregation for the past 18 years, and a member of the Peretz Shule before then.

Ellen has lived with Multiple Sclerosis since 1988 and understands the challenges of limited mobility, an issue she has addressed in much of her writing. In 2001, she moved to the Sunshine Coast and reinvented herself as a writer. She authored the popular STICKS AND WHEELS: A Guide to Accessible Travel on the Lower Sunshine Coast, which was published in 2006.

Her writing has also appeared in The Jewish Independent, Shared Voices, Coast Reporter, Sunstream, Living Legacies: A collection of Wring by Contemporary Canadian Jewish Women Volume II, on the website www.writershelper.com and in Below the Canopy, an anthology.

In 2009, she was honoured by the Community Futures BC program as one of the province’s top 10 entrepreneurs living with a disability. She is now back in Vancouver, where she continues to occupy herself as a writer, a feminist, a mother and a passionately Jewish grandmother. Ellen Frank continues to advocate for women’s freedom and for disability rights, and is available as a consultant and freelance writer on these and related topics.