Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Nicolai Gregory
Ellen Chang-Richardson
BIO
Biography
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, shortlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, five solo poetry chapbooks, and the co-author of two with their poetry collective VII. Ellen is an editor for Paper Bill Press, long con magazine and Room, as well as the co-founder and co-curator of Riverbed Reading Series.
Ellen's writing has appeared in Augur, the Ex-Puritan, the Fiddlehead, Grain, Plenitude and Watch Your Head, among others, and in anthologies including I'll Get Right On It (Fernwood Publishing, 2025).
Their second collection, Through the Eyes of Another, is forthcoming in Spring 2027.
ADDRESS
City: Ottawa,
Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
c/o TWUC
GENRE
Poetry, Hybrid, CNF, Experimental Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Forthcoming: Through the Eyes of Another
Publisher
Buckrider Books (Wolsak & Wynn)
Year
2027
Title
Blood Belies
Publisher
Buckrider Books (Wolsak & Wynn)
Year
2024
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Shortlist: Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Publication
Blood Belies
Year
2025
Name
First Place: POWER OF THE POETS Ekphrastic Contest
Publication
"All we are, are cavities" - after Abbas Akhavan
Year
2020
Name
First Place: Vallum Award for Poetry
Publication
"Grotto"
Year
2019
LINKS
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Presentation details
Presentation Genre
Poetry
EQUITY INITIATIVE
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Members who identify as:
Black, Indigenous, and/or racialized
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