__NOTOC__ Michelle Winters is a Canadian writer, translator and artist. Winters was born in 1972 in Saint John,

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. As a founding member of ''Just in a Bowl Productions'',Michelle Winters
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'', ''Dragnet'' and ''Matrix'', and made her a nominee for the 2011

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for short fiction. In 2017 she received a shortlisted

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nomination for her debut novel ''I Am a Truck''."5 finalists for 2017 Giller Prize revealed"

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, October 2, 2017. She currently lives in

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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.

References

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”
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