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ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON is an award-winning poet, hybrid genre writer, judicial assistant, and editor of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. They are the author of Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn), shortlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, five poetry chapbooks including the moleskin coat (above/ground press), and the co-author of two with their creative poetry collective VII. 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 our impact on the earth, geopolitics, memory, and their experience moving through various societies as a femme-presenting genderqueer. Ellen is a visitor on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe*, co-founder of the experimental Riverbed Reading Series, and an editor for Paper Bill Press, long con magazine, and Room.
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.
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, geopolitics, memory, and their experience moving through various societies as a femme-presenting genderqueer. Ellen is a visitor on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe*, co-founder of the experimental Riverbed Reading Series, and an editor for Paper Bill Press, long con magazine, and Room.
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.
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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 then 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/
