Michelle Good

Michelle Good is a Cree writer, poet, and lawyer from Canada, most noted for her debut novel Five Little Indians. She is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Good has an MFA and a law degree from the University of British Columbia and, as a lawyer, advocated for residential-school survivors.

She lives in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan.

Early life and education Good is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation. She was impacted by the Sixties Scoop and spent time in the foster care system. Her great-grandmother participated in the 1885 uprising at Frog Lake and her great-grandmother's uncle was Chief Big Bear.

Career Five Little Indians is a story about five British Columbia residential-school survivors. 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. In 2022, it won the Canada Reads competition, having been championed by Christian Allaire.

Good was named a Companion of the Order of Canada on December 31, 2025. HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize — Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize —

Amnesty International Book Club Reader's Choice

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes City of Vancouver Book Award — Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Indigenous Voices Award Published Prose in English: Fiction Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Fiction 2022 Canada Reads — 2025 — Indspire Awards Arts