Michelle Good

MICHELLE GOOD is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for twenty-five years, she obtained a law degree as a 43-year-old single mom and advocated for residential school survivors for over fourteen years. In 2014 Good earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while still practising law and managing her own law firm. Her poems, short stories, and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada, and her poetry was included on two lists of the best Canadian poetry. Five Little Indians, her first novel, won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award, the Evergreen Award, the City of Vancouver Book Award, and Canada Reads 2022. It was also longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Writer’s Trust Award. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous life in Canada was released in 2023 and was shortlisted for the Writers Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy, the Saskatchewan Book Awards and an Indigenous Voices Award, and was the winner of the High Plains Book Award. Good was inducted as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2025. Her highly anticipated new novel, to be released August 2026, is Eliza Sunshine.