Good is a member of the
Red Pheasant Cree Nation.[5][6] She was impacted by the
60s scoop and spent time in the foster care system.[7] Her great-grandmother participated in the
1885 uprising at Frog Lake and her Great Grandmother's uncle was Big Bear.[5] Good graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative writing in 2014.[6] The first draft of her debut novel, Five Little Indians, was her graduate thesis project.[6] She began to practice law in her 40's, sharing the histories of residential schools in courtrooms. [8] Good received an Honorary Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from Simon Fraser University on October 7, 2022.[9][10]
Five Little Indians is a story about five British Columbia residential-school survivors.[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.[1] Published in 2020, the novel was longlisted for the
Giller Prize[12] and shortlisted for the
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[13]Now listed it as one of the top 10 novels of 2020.[14]
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
Truth Telling is the second book of 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. Published on May 30, 2023, and finalist for the
Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.[21]
Poetry
Defying Gravity published in The Best Canadian Poetry 2016. Published on Oct 1, 2016 by Tightrope Books. Guest editor Helen Humphreys, editor Molly Peacock, and series editor Anita Lahy.[22][23]
TheBest of the Best Canadian Poetry, A Tenth Anniversary Edition.[24] Published on November 1, 2017 by Tightrope Books. Editors Anita Lahey and Molly Peacock.[25]
Essays
A Tradition Of Violence published in Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters. Published in 2018 by University of Alberta Press. Editors Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt.[26][23]
Best Canadian Essay 2023. Published in December 13, 2022 by Bilblioasis. Editor Mireille Silcoff.[23][27]
Journal
Gatherings Volume VII: The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples. Published in 1996 by Theytus Books. Editors Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Jeannette Armstrong[23]
Awards and Nominations
"The Evergreen Award" issued by
Forest of Reading program for Five Little Indians in 2021[9]
^Lahey, Anita; Peacock, Molly (2017). The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English: The Tenth Anniversary Edition. Tightrope Books.
ISBN978-1988040349.