Michelle Good

MICHELLE GOOD is a writer of Cree ancestry and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree nation in Saskatchewan. After three decades of working with Indigenous communities and organizations, she obtained her law degree. She earned her MFA in creative writing while practising law. Good’s bestselling book Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada was shortlisted for the Basillie Prize for Public Policy. Her debut novel, Five Little Indians, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Kobo Emerging Writer’s Prize, and CBC’s Canada Reads, and was nominated for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Giller Prize. Michelle’s poems, short stories and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada.