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BLOOD BELIES
Buckrider Books, Wolsak & Wynn

​"Blood Belies is daring in its expansiveness." – Wanda Praamsma, The Toronto Star

"Beyond its beauty and its ability to be cherished as a material and spiritual object, Blood Belies leaves us with the freedom to notice our own fragmentation [...]" – Jérôme Melançon, The Temz Review

“These poems probe at all the landscapes that haunt us [...] with a precise voice that is sometimes quiet and sometimes roaring to be heard." –Jen Sookfong Lee, author of Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart


ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON is an award-winning poet, multigenre writer, judicial assistant, and editor of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. They are the author of Blood Belies, shortlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the author of five poetry chapbooks including The Moleskin Coat (forthcoming with above/ground press) and the co-author of two with their creative poetry collective VII.

A third culture kid at heart, Ellen's writing is informed by their love of contemporary art, their concern with our impact on the earth,
 by geopolitics, memory, and their experiences moving through various societies as a femme-presenting genderqueer. Co-founder of the experimental Riverbed Reading Series, an editorial collective member of Room magazine and a creative nonfiction editor for ​long con magazine, Ellen is currently based on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe.*

Winner of the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry and the 2020 POWER OF THE POETS Ekphrastic Poetry Contest, for their piece after Abbas Akhavan's variations of a landscape, Ellen's writing has appeared in Augur, Anti-Heroin Chic, the Ex-Puritan, the Fiddlehead, Grain, Plenitude, Watch Your Head and Vallum Contemporary, among others. 

They are a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers' Union of Canada.
Interviews/Media

Publicist

​Hollay Ghadery
​River Street Writing
​[email protected]

Agent

Tasneem Motala
Belcastro Agency
[email protected] ​
*Colonially known as Ottawa, Canada. We live and work on stolen land. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves and those around us. https://native-land.ca/
Special thanks to the following institutions for their financial support:
© 2025 Ellen Chang-Richardson. All Rights Reserved.
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