Michelle Dean (born 1979) is an author and freelance journalist and critic from Canada.
[5] She received a master's degree in Law from the University of Toronto in 2011.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Elle and Literary Review Canada.
Her first book, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, was published by Grove Atlantic in 2018.
Dean was honored in 2016 with the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.