Eliza Sunshine: Michelle Good in Conversation with jaye simpson
About this Event
is a powerful family saga following three generations of Cree women and the storytelling tradition that connects them to each other.
“Creating a gripping ode and elegy, Michelle Good has chosen to tell a story that is near to her heart, and the profound depth of care shines through on every page. Eliza Sunshine unflinchingly traces the indelible traumas of racism and sexual violence yet celebrates the vitality and depth of her characters’ connections through generations and matriarchal resistance. An ultimately uplifting and timeless story.” —Eden Robinson, author of the Trickster Trilogy.
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Held at Massy Books 229 E. Georgia St. Vancouver, BC, unceded and occupied territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations).
Doors open at 6:30, the event starts promptly at 7:00 pm.
Books by all authors will be for sale at the event, followed by a book signing.
Please refrain from wearing scents, including heavy perfumes. Covid and other Aerosolized Communicable Infections Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended. If you are showing symptoms, please stay home. Thank you kindly.
Author:
MICHELLE GOOD is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working with Indigenous communities and organizations for twenty-five years, she obtained her law degree as a 43-year-old single mom, and then spent fourteen years advocating for residential school survivors. She earned her MFA in creative writing while still practising law. Her debut novel, Five Little Indians, became a #1 bestseller and won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and CBC’s Canada Reads. It was also nominated for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Giller Prize, among other honours. Good’s bestselling book Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada was shortlisted for the Basillie Prize for Public Policy. In 2025, she won the Indspire Award for Arts and was admitted as a member of the Order of Canada.
Moderator:
jaye simpson (she/they) is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. simpson is a writer, advocate and activist sharing their knowledge and lived experiences in hope of creating utopia.
she is published in several magazines including Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PRISM international, SAD Magazine: Green, GUTS Magazine, SubTerrain, Grain and Room. They are in four anthologies: Hustling Verse (2019), Love After the End (2020), The Care We Dream Of (2021), and Queer Little Nightmares (2022). Their first poetry collection, it was never going to be okay (Nightwood Ed.) was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award and a 2021 Dayne Ogilvie Prize Finalist while also winning the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. a body more tolerable, her second book of published poetry was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Prize.
she is a displaced Indigenous person resisting, ruminating and residing on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories, colonially known as Vancouver.
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