Photo: Royal Ontario Museum
Glen Ellis has previously held the positions of Head of the Royal Ontario Museum Press (https://www.rom.on.ca/en); Executive Editor, ROM Magazine; Managing Editor, Rotunda magazine; Book Review Editor, Rotunda magazine; Senior Editor, Business, Professional, and Consumer Group, McGraw-Hill Canada (https://www.mheducation.ca); and Acquisitions Editor at the Toronto offices of British publisher J. M. Dent & Sons (https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/). He was also offered the position of Children's Books Editor at Penguin Canada.
His publishing portfolio includes mass market, business, professional, sports, biography, aviation, folklore, history, archaeology, art, music, wine, literary, fiction, scholarly, and fine editions. He was an editor for the Canadian novelist Hugh Hood (https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hugh-hood).
He has written support text for philanthropic campaigns of the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto. Co-wrote two guides to the museum as it was on the eve of the transformative Renaissance ROM.
He has also been a ghostwriter for such diverse authorities as Royal Ontario Museum directors and the test pilot of the Avro Arrow (https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/janusz-zurakowski).
Ellis has edited two Governor General’s Award-winners, acquired and published a National Business Book Award-winner, and directed a multiple-award-winning publishing program that includes the Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Publishing (https://www.museums.ca/). He also innovated a unique and profitable model for exhibition catalogues.
He has worked closely with Indigenous authors and artists to honour their literature and art. He was Basil Johnston’s editor at the Royal Ontario Museum, where he published Mermaids and Medicine Women: Native Myths and Legends, illustrated by Ioyan Mani (Maxine Noel) of the Birdtail Sioux; The Bear-Walker and Other Stories, illustrated by David Johnson of the Curve Lake First Nation; and The Star-Man and Other Tales, illustrated by Nohdin (Ken Syrette), of the Batchewana First Nation.
He was the editor and publisher of John MacDonald’s The Arctic Sky: Inuit Astronomy, Star Lore, and Legend, a celebrated collection and documentation of Inuit oral history and traditional knowledge. As the author was living in Igloolik at the time of publication, Ellis introduced the book via a lecture to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, in Toronto. He recently collaborated with Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit to produce the revised, updated edition: The Arctic Sky: Exploring the Inuit Universe, also edited by Ellis.
His collaborations with associate publishers and co-publishers include Journey to the Ice Age: Discovering an Ancient World by ROM Curator Emeritus Peter L. Storck (UBC/ROM): Alcuin Citation for Excellence in Book Design in Canada (Alcuin Society); Chalmers Award (Champlain Society); Public Communications Award (Canadian Archaeological Association).
He has also worked closely with the great Japanese-Canadian printmaker Naoko Matsubara.
Ellis is a contributor to the third edition of Editing Canadian English (online) and Editorial Niches: A Companion to Editing Canadian English, both published by the Editors’ Association of Canada (https://www.editors.ca/).
Monday's Child, Gemini, Ox
Calls for a permanent ceasefire around the world.
Advocate for the criticality and practicality of humanities studies: e.g., history, languages, literature, art, archeology, architecture, music, and philosophy, especially moral philosophy (ethics).
Respects the Shinto principle of the shame of confrontation.
Alma Mater: University of Toronto
Student Mentor, University of Toronto
His family has lived in Toronto since 1832 (from Wiltshire, 1832, Oxfordshire, 1905).
1871 heritage home in rural Ontario.
