Michelle Good

[2] Good has an MFA and a law degree from the University of British Columbia and, as a lawyer, advocated for residential-school survivors.

[8] Good received an Honorary Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from Simon Fraser University on October 7, 2022.

[11] Although the novel itself is fiction, some of the episodes were based on real experiences of her mother and grandmother, who were both survivors of Canada's residential school system.

[12][13][needs update] Truth Telling is the second book written by Good, it is a collection of essays on historical and modern experiences of indigenous in Canada.

It covers wide variety of topics from life of indigenous people to modern social institution in Canada.