ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON
is an award-winning poet, a writer, and an editor, of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent whose multi-genre writing has appeared in Augur, The Fiddlehead, third coast magazine, Vallum Contemporary, and more.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, they were raised in Oakville, Ontario and São Paulo, Brazil, and spent their most formative years growing up in Shanghai, China. A third culture kid at heart, Ellen's writing is informed by their love of contemporary art, their concern with the climate crisis, and their experience moving through the world as they are.
The founder of Little Birds Poetry, co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, member of Room's editorial collective, member of long con magazine's editorial board, and I of VII, Ellen is currently based on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg.* You can usually find them baking sourdough bread from their starter, Bubbles, or biking the riverside trails on their single-speed.
Ellen is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and Arts Network Ottawa | Réseau des arts d'Ottawa.
Ellen's debut collection Blood/Belies is out in Spring 2024 with Buckrider Books (Wolsak & Wynn).
Ellen is represented by Tasneem Motala at The Rights Factory.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, they were raised in Oakville, Ontario and São Paulo, Brazil, and spent their most formative years growing up in Shanghai, China. A third culture kid at heart, Ellen's writing is informed by their love of contemporary art, their concern with the climate crisis, and their experience moving through the world as they are.
The founder of Little Birds Poetry, co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, member of Room's editorial collective, member of long con magazine's editorial board, and I of VII, Ellen is currently based on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg.* You can usually find them baking sourdough bread from their starter, Bubbles, or biking the riverside trails on their single-speed.
Ellen is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and Arts Network Ottawa | Réseau des arts d'Ottawa.
Ellen's debut collection Blood/Belies is out in Spring 2024 with Buckrider Books (Wolsak & Wynn).
Ellen is represented by Tasneem Motala at The Rights Factory.
Photograph on this page: courtesy of Curtis Perry (2022)
*We live and work on stolen land. It is our responsibility to educate both ourselves and others around us. https://native-land.ca/
