Michelle Good

Michelle Good
OccupationAuthor, poet, lawyer
NationalityCree, Canadian
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
GenreFiction, Poetry, Essay
Notable worksFive Little Indians, Defying Gravity, "Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada"
Notable awardsHarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize, 2020
Website
www.michellegood.ca

Michelle Good is a Cree writer, poet, and lawyer from Canada, most noted for her debut novel Five Little Indians.[1] She is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan.[2] Good has an MFA and a law degree from the University of British Columbia and, as a lawyer, advocated for residential-school survivors.[3][4]

  1. ^ Angelica Haggert, "'The story I was intended to write': Michelle Good on forthcoming novel 'Five Little Indians'". Canadian Geographic, February 20, 2020.
  2. ^ "Michelle Good's Five Little Indians is a fictional look at the real Canadian legacy of residential schools". The Next Chapter, May 8, 2020.
  3. ^ "Five Little Indians follows young lives forced into residential school". vancouversun. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  4. ^ "CP24 | Entertainment News - Toronto arts & entertainment | Celeb Gossip". www.cp24.com. Retrieved 2022-03-09.