ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON
is a poet, writer, and editor of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent whose multi-genre writing has appeared in Augur Magazine, Vallum Contemporary, The Fiddlehead, Anti-Heroin Chic, and more.
The founder of Little Birds Poetry and the co-founder/co-curator of Riverbed Reading Series, Ellen is a member of Room magazine's editorial collective and long con magazine's editorial board. They are I of VII — a creative poetry collective formed during the COVID-19 pandemic — and currently live on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe First Nation (Ottawa, Ontario).*
Winner of the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry and the 2020 "POWER OF THE POETS" Contest, Ellen is the author/co-author of five poetry chapbooks: Unlucky Fours (Anstruther Press), snap, pop, performance: a series of ekphrasis (Gap Riot Press), Towers with VII (Collusion Books), holy disorder of being with VII (Gap Riot Press) and Assimilation Tactics (forthcoming with Coven Editions).
Their debut collection Blood Belies is out in Spring 2024 with Buckrider Books, the outlaw imprint of Wolsak & Wynn.
They are represented by Tasneem Motala at The Rights Factory.
The founder of Little Birds Poetry and the co-founder/co-curator of Riverbed Reading Series, Ellen is a member of Room magazine's editorial collective and long con magazine's editorial board. They are I of VII — a creative poetry collective formed during the COVID-19 pandemic — and currently live on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe First Nation (Ottawa, Ontario).*
Winner of the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry and the 2020 "POWER OF THE POETS" Contest, Ellen is the author/co-author of five poetry chapbooks: Unlucky Fours (Anstruther Press), snap, pop, performance: a series of ekphrasis (Gap Riot Press), Towers with VII (Collusion Books), holy disorder of being with VII (Gap Riot Press) and Assimilation Tactics (forthcoming with Coven Editions).
Their debut collection Blood Belies is out in Spring 2024 with Buckrider Books, the outlaw imprint of Wolsak & Wynn.
They are 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/
