Ellen Chang-Richardson

Winner of the 2019 Vallum Poetry Award and the 2020 Power of the Poets Contest for their ekphrasis of Abbas Akhavan’s variations on a landscape, Ellen Chang-Richardson’s multi-genre work has appeared in Augur, Canthius, The Fiddlehead and more. A settler of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent, Ellen currently lives/works on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe (Ottawa, ON) where they co-curate Riverbed Reading Series and write collaboratively as part of the poetry collective VII. They are the author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks and an editor for long con magazine and Room. Their debut collection is forthcoming with Buckrider Books in Spring 2024.