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ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON is an award-winning Canadian poet, hybrid genre writer, and editor. Their debut collection of poetry, Blood Belies, was shortlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Their second collection of poetry, Through the Eyes of Another, is forthcoming Spring 2027.
A third culture kid at heart, Ellen's writing is informed by geopolitics, the anthropocene, memory, their love of contemporary art, 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 Augur, Anti-Heroin Chic, Grain, Plenitude, Riddle Fence, Room, Watch Your Head, Vallum Contemporary, I'll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis, and more.
A visitor on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe*, Ellen is also the co-founder and co-curator of Riverbed Reading Series, a creative nonfiction editor for long con magazine, and an acquiring editor for Paper Bill Press.
A third culture kid at heart, Ellen's writing is informed by geopolitics, the anthropocene, memory, their love of contemporary art, 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 Augur, Anti-Heroin Chic, Grain, Plenitude, Riddle Fence, Room, Watch Your Head, Vallum Contemporary, I'll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis, and more.
A visitor on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe*, Ellen is also the co-founder and co-curator of Riverbed Reading Series, a creative nonfiction editor for long con magazine, and an acquiring editor for Paper Bill Press.
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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/
