Michelle Good

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]

Michelle Good
OccupationAuthor, poet, lawyer
NationalityCree, Canadian
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
GenreFiction, poetry
Notable worksFive Little Indians, Defying Gravity
Website
www.michellegood.ca

Early life and education

Good is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation.[5][6] She was impacted by the 60s scoop and spent time in the foster care system.[7] Her great-grandmother participated in the 1885 uprising at Frog Lake and her uncle was Big Bear.[5] Good graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative writing in 2014.[6] The first draft of her debut novel, Five Little Indians, was her graduate thesis project.[6] She began to practice law in her 40's, sharing the histories of residential schools in courtrooms. [8]

Works

Five Little Indians
Main article: Five Little Indians (novel)

Five Little Indians is a story about five British Columbia residential-school survivors.[9] Although the novel itself is fiction, some of the episodes were based on real experiences of her mother and grandmother, who were both survivors of Canada's residential school system.[1] Published in 2020, the novel was longlisted for the Giller Prize[10] and shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[11] Now listed it as one of the top 10 novels of 2020.[12]

In 2020, the book won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize.[13] Then, in 2021, the book won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2020 Governor General's Awards,[14] the Amazon.ca First Novel Award,[15] and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize.[16] Also in 2021, the book was optioned to be adapted as a limited television series.[17]

Poetry
  • Defying Gravity published in Best Canadian Poetry 2016 and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry, A Tenth Anniversary Edition[18]

Essays
  • A Tradition Of Violence published in Keetsahnak, Our Sisters: Walking with Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit Peoples[19]

References
  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.
  5. Laskaris, Adam (1 June 2021). "Kamloops-area author wins prestigious awards for debut novel". Kamloops This Week. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  6. Drudi, Cassandra (1 June 2021). "GG Winners Circle: Michelle Good (English-language fiction)". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  7. Van Koeverden, Jane (March 14, 2022). "Michelle Good on her novel Five Little Indians, and the question that guides her writing". Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  8. Van Koeverden, Jane (March 14, 2022). "Michelle Good on her novel Five Little Indians, and the question that guides her writing". Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  9. "Michelle Good's "Five Little Indians" a fictional exploration of life after residential school". thestar.com. 2020-04-16. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  10. Deborah Dundas, "Thomas King, Emma Donoghue make the 2020 Giller Longlist in a year marked by firsts". toronto Star, September 8, 2020.
  11. "Thomas King, Gil Adamson among finalists for $50K Writers' Trust Fiction Prize". Toronto Star, October 6, 2020.
  12. Cole, Susan G. (2020-11-30). "The 10 best books of 2020". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  13. "Success Story with Michelle Good".
  14. "Michelle Good says celebrating fiction win feels 'petty and selfish' after residential school discovery". CTV News, June 1, 2021.
  15. Vicky Qiao, "Five Little Indians by Michelle Good wins $60K Amazon First Novel Award". CBC Books, May 28, 2021.
  16. Deborah Dundas, "Michelle Good wins Kobo Emerging Writer fiction prize — making it three wins for the three noms she got on that big day in May". Toronto Star, June 22, 2021.
  17. Vicky, Qiao (June 2001). "Michelle Good's Five Little Indians to be adapted into limited TV series".
  18. Brady, Sean. "Surviving after leaving the residential schools". Kamloops This Week. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  19. "Pacific Rim Review of Books". www.prrb.ca. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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