Michelle Winters
Michelle Winters is a Canadian writer, translator and artist.
Winters was born in 1972 in Saint John, New Brunswick. As a founding member of Just in a Bowl Productions, she has co-written and performed in Unsinkable and The Hungarian Suicide Duel. Her short stories have appeared in This Magazine, Taddle Creek, Dragnet and Matrix, and made her a nominee for the 2011 Journey Prize for short fiction. In 2017 she received a shortlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination for her debut novel I Am a Truck.
She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Publications
- “Toupée”, in: Journey: Celebrating the Journey Prize: Selected Stories 1989-2023, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2018, Hair for Men, House of Anansi Press, Toronto 2024 I Am a Truck, Invisible Publishing, Picton 2016
- “The Canadian Grotesque”, in: Taddle Creek, No. 30.
- “Maintenance to six”, in: Dragnet Magazine, No. 8.
- “Toupée”, in: Sharon Bala et al., The Journey Prize Stories 30: The Best of Canada's New Writers, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2018,
Translations
- Marie-Hélène Larochelle, Kiss the Undertow, House of Anansi Press, Toronto 2024
- Marie-Hélène Larochelle, Daniil and Vanya, Invisible Publishing, Picton 2020
- Marie-Ève Comtois, My Planet of Kites, transl. with Stuart Ross, Mansfield Press, Toronto 2014,