As a lawyer, she has been a tireless advocate for Indigenous people – in particular, survivors of residential schools. She obtained her law degree in her 40s, an MFA in her 50s and published her first book in her 60s. It’s tempting to call Michelle Good a late bloomer. Five Little Indians, her first novel, won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize. 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 in 20. 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. After working for Indigenous organisations for twenty-five years she obtained a law degree and advocated for residential school survivors for over fourteen years. Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan.
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