Michelle Porter is the descendent of a long line of Métis storytellers (the Goulet family) originally from the Red River area. Her first novel, A Grandmother Begins the Story (2023), was the winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her next novel, A Glacier’s Guide to Dying, will be released in September 2026. She lives in Newfoundland and Labrador where she teaches creative writing at Memorial University. Michelle also served as the Indy’s Editor-in-Chief in 2018.
