Michelle Porter

Michelle Porter is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel A Grandmother Begins the Story was a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Porter, a Métis born and raised in Manitoba, currently lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She previously published the poetry collection Inquiries (2019), the non-fiction history book Rebel Women of the East Coast (2005), and the family history memoirs Approaching Fire (2020) and Scratching River (2022).

She was a shortlisted Pat Lowther Award finalist in 2020 for Inquiries, and an Indigenous Voices Award nominee for English Creative Nonfiction and Life-Writing in 2021 for Approaching Fire.

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21st-century Canadian novelists

21st-century Canadian poets

21st-century Canadian memoirists

21st-century Canadian women writers

Canadian women novelists

Canadian women poets

Canadian women memoirists

Métis writers

Writers from Manitoba

Writers from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Living people