Michelle Porter is a Canadian writer,"'The land had to have a voice:' Métis author Michelle Porter discusses her debut novel". The Next Chapter, May 20, 2023. whose debut novel A Grandmother Begins the Story won the 2024 Thomas Head Raddall AwardCassandra Drudi, "Finalists for Nova Scotia Book Awards and Atlantic Book Awards announced". Quill & Quire, April 15, 2024. and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.Cassandra Drudi, "Three debut novels among finalists for 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". Quill & Quire, September 27, 2023.
Porter, a Métis woman born and raised in Manitoba, currently lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and LabradorKathryne Cardwell, "Métis women’s struggles span generations". Winnipeg Free Press, June 3, 2023. where she teaches in the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland.Michelle Porter, "Michelle Porter: How a crooked Métis fiddle tune changed the way I think about stories". Toronto Star, July 14, 2023. She previously published the poetry collection Inquiries (2019),Shannon Webb-Campbell, "Book Review: ‘Inquiries’ by Métis Poet Michelle Porter". Muskrat Magazine, August 30, 2019. the non-fiction history book Rebel Women of the East Coast (2005), and the family history memoirs Approaching Fire (2020)James M. Fisher, "Approaching Fire by Michelle Porter". Miramichi Reader, January 15, 2021. and Scratching River (2022).Laurie D. Graham, "Scratching River". Alberta Views, September 1, 2022.
Porter 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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