Michelle Winters Explained

Michelle Winters
Birth Date:	1972
Birth Place:	Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Occupation:	Novelist, playwright, translator
Genre:	novels, plays

Michelle Winters is a Canadian writer, translator and artist.^[1]

Winters was born in 1972 in Saint John, New Brunswick. As a founding member of Just in a Bowl Productions,^[2] she has co-written and performed in Unsinkable (2000)^[3] and The Hungarian Suicide Duel (2002).^[4] 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.^[5] In 2017 she received a shortlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination for her debut novel I Am a Truck.^[6]

She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.^[2]

Publications

• I Am a Truck (novel), Invisible Publishing, Picton 2016
• “The Canadian Grotesque”, in: Taddle Creek, No. 30 (Summer 2013).
• “Maintenance to six”, in: Dragnet Magazine, No. 8 (2013).
• “Toupée”, in: Sharon Bala et al. (ed.), The Journey Prize Stories 30: The Best of Canada's New Writers, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2018,

Translations

• Marie-Hélène Larochelle, Daniil and Vanya (Daniil et Vanya), Invisible Publishing, Picton 2020
• Marie-Ève Comtois, My Planet of Kites (Je Te Trouve Belle Mon Homme), transl. with Stuart Ross, Mansfield Press, Toronto 2014,

Theatrical works

• The Hungarian Suicide Duel with Lori Delorme, Just in a Bowl Productions 2002.
• Unsinkable with Lori Delorme, Just in a Bowl Productions 2000.

External links

• • Short stories by Michelle Winters:
  • “Toupée”, this.org (January 22, 2010), retrieved May 18, 2020.
  • “The Canadian Grotesque”, taddlecreekmag.com (2013), retrieved May 18, 2020.
  • “Maintenance to six”, cdn.shopify.com (July 2013). retrieved May 18, 2020.

Notes and References

1. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2016/12/17/road-trip-books-combine-destiny-and-destination.html "Road-trip books combine destiny and destination"
2. https://alllitup.ca/contributors/W/Winters-Michelle Michelle Winters
3. https://www.theatermania.com/shows/toronto-theater/unsinkable_4934 Unsinkable
4. Jon Kaplan and Glenn Sumi, Fringe Festival Listings, nowtoronto.com (11. July 2002), retrieved May 18, 2020.
5. Michelle Colistro, April 22: Stacey May Fowles, Liisa Ladouceur and Michelle Winters, pivotreadings.wordpress.com (April 9, 2009), retrieved May 18, 2020.
6. http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/scotiabank-giller-prize-2017-shortlist-1.4316399 "5 finalists for 2017 Giller Prize revealed"