Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author of Blood Belies [Wolsak & Wynn, 2024] and author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, their multi-genre writing has appeared in Augur, Room, the Ex-Puritan, the Fiddlehead, Grain, Plenitude, Watch Your Head, Vallum Contemporary, and more. A third culture kid at heart, Ellen's writing is informed by their love of contemporary art, their concern with humanity's impact on the earth, and their experience moving through the world as they are. 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 on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg.