ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON
is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent whose multi-genre writing has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Augur, Canthius, Room, The Ex-Puritan, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction (Wolsak & Wynn, '23), 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 co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, an editor for Room and long con magazine, and a member of the poetry collective VII, Ellen is currently based in Ottawa, Canada, on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Nation.* You can usually find them baking sourdough bread from their starter, Bubbles, or biking the riverside trails on their single-speed.
Ellen's debut collection Blood/Belies is out in Spring 2024 with Buckrider Books (Wolsak & Wynn). They are 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 co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, an editor for Room and long con magazine, and a member of the poetry collective VII, Ellen is currently based in Ottawa, Canada, on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Nation.* You can usually find them baking sourdough bread from their starter, Bubbles, or biking the riverside trails on their single-speed.
Ellen's debut collection Blood/Belies is out in Spring 2024 with Buckrider Books (Wolsak & Wynn). They are represented by Tasneem Motala at The Rights Factory.
Photograph on this page: courtesy of Manahil Bandukwala.
*We live and work on stolen land. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves and those around us. https://native-land.ca/
*We live and work on stolen land. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves and those around us. https://native-land.ca/
