Wolsak & Wynn and Another Story Bookshop invite you to the Toronto launch of Blood Belies by Ellen Chang-Richardson. Hosted by Manahil Bandukwala with local guest poets Whitney
French and Terese Mason Pierre.
Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.
Books will be available for purchase, and, of course, author will be signing!
Accessibility Info: washrooms are down a flight of stairs.
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ABOUT THE POETS
Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent living on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. The author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, their writing has appeared in journals and anthologies across Turtle Island including Augur, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ex-Puritan, third coast magazine and Watch Your Head. They are an editorial member of Room magazine, a poetry editor for long con magazine, the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series and a member of the poetry collective VII. Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn) is their debut collection.
Terese Mason Pierre is a Toronto-based writer whose work has appeared in The Walrus, ROOM, Brick, Quill & Quire, and Fantasy Magazine, among others. Her work has been nominated for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, Best of the Net, the Aurora Award, and the Ignyte Award. She is one of ten winners of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize, and was named a Writers’
Trust Rising Star. Terese is an editor at Augur Magazine, and the author of chapbooks, Surface Area (Anstruther Press, 2019) and Manifest (Gap Riot Press, 2020). She is an MFA candidate at
the University of Guelph.
Whitney French (she/her) is a Toronto-based writer, multidisciplinary artist, and publisher. She is the editor of the award-winning anthology Black Writers Matter (University of Regina, 2019) as well as the editor of Griot: Six Writers Sojourn into the Dark (Penguin Random House Canada, 2022) Whitney French is a certified arts educator with writing appeared in ARC Poetry, GEIST, FIYAH, CBC Books, and Quill and Quire. As a Hurston Wright Foundation and Watering Hole fellow, Whitney French is a self-described Black futurist, who explores memory,
loss, technology, and nature in her works. Language is her favourite collaborator.
Ellen would like to thank the League of Canadian Poets for their financial support.