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Michelle Porter is a Canadian writer,[1] whose debut novel A Grandmother Begins the Story won the 2024 Thomas Head Raddall Award[2] and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[3]
Porter, a Métis woman born and raised in Manitoba, currently lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador[4] where she teaches in the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland.[5] She previously published the poetry collection Inquiries (2019),[6] the non-fiction history book Rebel Women of the East Coast (2005), and the family history memoirs Approaching Fire (2020)[7] and Scratching River (2022).[8]
Porter was a shortlisted Pat Lowther Award finalist in 2020 for Inquiries,[9] and an Indigenous Voices Award nominee for English Creative Nonfiction and Life-Writing in 2021 for Approaching Fire.
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