Jael Ealey Richardson is a

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writer and broadcaster. The daughter of former

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quarterback

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, 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. 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''."Jael Richardson and the Industry-Changing FOLD"
. ''

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''. An graduate of the

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,"Jael Richardson on the FOLD: Festival of Literary Diversity"
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''. she is the cofounder and artistic director of

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's annual

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, and has served as a

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for the

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. She is a regular contributor of book reviews to

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's arts magazine series '' Q'', has served as a guest host of ''Q'', and was cohost with

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of the network's broadcast of the 2017 and 2018

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galas. Her debut novel, ''Gutter Child'', was published in 2021, and was shortlisted for the

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. The novel was also included in the

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new program, WT Amplified Voices, which promotes books with BIPOC authors that were released during the pandemic, as well as nominated for

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's White Pine Award for 2022.

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, in an effort to promote Canadian writers, also included Richardson in their series of Canadian Audible Originals.

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