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ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON is a Canadian poet, hybrid genre writer, editor, and author of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. Their debut collection, Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn), was shortlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and their second collection of poetry, Through the Eyes of Another: a collection of ekphrasis, is forthcoming with Buckrider Books in Spring 2027.
A third culture kid at heart, Ellen's writing is informed by their love of contemporary art, their concern with human impact on the earth, geopolitics, memory, and their experience moving through various societies as a femme-presenting genderqueer. In addition to their full length collections, Ellen is the solo author of five poetry chapbooks and the co-author of two with their creative poetry collective VII. Their writing can be found in publications including Augur, Grain, Plenitude, Room, Watch Your Head, Vallum Contemporary, and I'll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis (Fernwood Publishing, 2025).
A visitor on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg*, Ellen is also a judicial assistant for the Federal Court, the co-founder/co-curator of the experimental Riverbed Reading Series, and an editor for Paper Bill Press, long con magazine, and Room.
Ellen is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers' Union of Canada, the recipient of the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry, and a winner of the 2020 Power of the Poets Ekphrastic Poetry Contest ~ for their piece "all we are, are cavities," written in response to variations of a landscape by Iranian Canadian multidisciplinary artist Abbas Akhavan.
A third culture kid at heart, Ellen's writing is informed by their love of contemporary art, their concern with human impact on the earth, geopolitics, memory, and their experience moving through various societies as a femme-presenting genderqueer. In addition to their full length collections, Ellen is the solo author of five poetry chapbooks and the co-author of two with their creative poetry collective VII. Their writing can be found in publications including Augur, Grain, Plenitude, Room, Watch Your Head, Vallum Contemporary, and I'll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis (Fernwood Publishing, 2025).
A visitor on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg*, Ellen is also a judicial assistant for the Federal Court, the co-founder/co-curator of the experimental Riverbed Reading Series, and an editor for Paper Bill Press, long con magazine, and Room.
Ellen is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers' Union of Canada, the recipient of the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry, and a winner of the 2020 Power of the Poets Ekphrastic Poetry Contest ~ for their piece "all we are, are cavities," written in response to variations of a landscape by Iranian Canadian multidisciplinary artist Abbas Akhavan.
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*Colonially known as Ottawa, Canada. We live and work on stolen land. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves and those around us; and advocate for Land Back.
- Native Land Map - https://native-land.ca/
- What is Land Back? - https://davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/what-is-land-back/
- RAVEN Trust - Indigenous-led litigation for environmental justice - http://raventrust.com/
