Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author of Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) and six poetry chapbooks, their multi-genre writing has appeared in Augur, Room and Vallum Contemporary, among others. They co-founded Riverbed Reading Series and write collaboratively with the poetry collective VII.

Poetic Appetizer
excerpt from Ellen Chang-Richardson’s poem “between branches”, from her collection Blood Belies:

I want to sit where

living incites

no violence



where you, where I

exist as the leaves

of my Zamioculcas do;