Award-winning Cree author Michelle Good says much of Canadian history is a myth and Canadians will never achieve reconciliation if they do not appreciate Canadian history through the lens of Indigenous experience. Good will speak online at the Pembroke Campus speaker series on Thursday, May 2 at 7 p.m. The presentation is free for College employees.

Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for 25 years, she obtained a law degree and advocated for residential school survivors for more than 14 years. Good earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while still practicing 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 in 2016 and 2017.

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 Prize, the Evergreen Award, the City of Vancouver Award and Canada Reads 2022. It was also longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a finalist for the Writers' Trust Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. 

On Oct. 7, 2022, Simon Fraser University granted her an honorary doctor of letters. Her new work, Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous life in Canada was released May 30, 2023, and on Oct. 4, 2023, was shortlisted for the Writers Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.

Good has named her presentation "Reaching Beneath the Myth of Canadian History." Register here.