Date: Sept. 30
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. MST
Location: Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, UCalgary, and livestreamed
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. Her poems, short stories and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada.
Five Little Indians, Good’s 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 Award, the Evergreen Award, the City of Vancouver Book of the Year Award, and Canada Reads 2022.
Hosted by Dr. Michael Hart, vice-provost (Indigenous Engagement), this keynote address includes special remarks from UCalgary President Dr. Ed McCauley and Calgary Public Library CEO Sarah Meilleur, BA’01.
Piikani Elder Reg Crowshoe, Hon. LLD’01, will open and close the event in a good way.