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 subsequently earned her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC while still practising law. Her novel, Five Little Indians, was nominated for the Writers’ Trust Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It received the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Five Little Indians also won Canada Reads in 2022. Good’s poems, short stories, and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada.

Website: michellegood.ca
Instagram: @creeborn

FESTIVAL BOOK

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada

Truth telling is at once heartfelt, instructive, and authentic, expertly exploring the key issues that have shaped the Indigenous reality in Canada… This collection is an indispensable resource.” –Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Crusted Snow

A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.

With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge.

From racism, broken treaties, and cultural pillaging, to the value of Indigenous lives and the importance of Indigenous literature, this collection reveals facts about Indigenous life in Canada that are both devastating and enlightening. Truth Telling also demonstrates the myths underlying Canadian history and the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin modern social institutions in Canada.

Passionate and uncompromising, Good affirms that meaningful and substantive reconciliation hinges on recognition of Indigenous self-determination, the return of lands, and a just redistribution of the wealth that has been taken from those lands without regard for Indigenous peoples.

Truth Telling is essential reading for those looking to acknowledge the past and understand the way forward.

GET THE BOOK

Shelf Life Books | Calgary Public Library | Audible

BE CURIOUSER

Radio: Michelle Good invites conversation, not confrontation, on Indigenous issues in her new book Truth Telling – The Next Chapter, CBC
Author Michelle Good challenges perceptions of Indigenous life in newest book – CBC
Michelle Good’s Truth Telling lays personal stories on the line in bid for factual representation – Dana Gee, Vancouver Sun
Michelle Good continues Canada’s conversations on colonialism with new essays – The Sunday Magazine, CBC