Jael Richardson

Jael Ealey Richardson is a Canadian writer and broadcaster.[1] The daughter of former Canadian Football League quarterback Chuck Ealey, she is best known for The Stone Thrower, a book about her father which has been published both as an adult memoir in 2012 and as an illustrated children's book in 2015.[2]

She has also written the theatrical play my upside down black face, which was excerpted in T-Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto's Black Storytellers.[3]

An MFA graduate of the University of Guelph,[4] she is the cofounder and artistic director of Brampton, Ontario's annual Festival of Literary Diversity,[5] and has served as a writer in residence for the Toronto District School Board.[4] She is a regular contributor of book reviews to CBC Radio One's arts magazine series Q,[3] has served as a guest host of Q, and was cohost with Shelagh Rogers of the network's broadcast of the 2017 and 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize galas.[6]

Her debut novel, Gutter Child, was published in 2021.[7]

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