Michelle Winters

Michelle Winters is a Canadian writer, translator and artist.

Winters was born in 1972 in Saint John, New Brunswick. As a founding member of Just in a Bowl Productions, she has co-written and performed in Unsinkable (2000) and The Hungarian Suicide Duel (2002). Her short stories have appeared in This Magazine, Taddle Creek, Dragnet and Matrix, and made her a nominee for the 2011 Journey Prize for short fiction. In 2017, she received a shortlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination for her debut novel I Am a Truck.

She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Publications "Toupée", in: Journey: Celebrating the Journey Prize: Selected Stories 1989-2023, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2018, Hair for Men (novel), House of Anansi Press, Toronto 2024 I Am a Truck (novel), Invisible Publishing, Picton 2016 "The Canadian Grotesque", in: Taddle Creek, No. 30 (Summer 2013). "Maintenance to six", in: Dragnet Magazine, No. 8 (2013). "Toupée", in: Sharon Bala et al. (ed.), The Journey Prize Stories 30: The Best of Canada's New Writers, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2018,

Translations Marie-Hélène Larochelle, Kiss the Undertow (Kiss the Undertow), House of Anansi Press, Toronto 2024 Marie-Hélène Larochelle, Daniil and Vanya (Daniil et Vanya), Invisible Publishing, Picton 2020 Marie-Ève Comtois, My Planet of Kites (Je Te Trouve Belle Mon Homme), transl. with Stuart Ross, Mansfield Press, Toronto 2014,

Theatrical works The Hungarian Suicide Duel with Lori Delorme, Just in a Bowl Productions 2002. Unsinkable with Lori Delorme, Just in a Bowl Productions 2000.