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Michelle spent nearly two decades working as a policy officer on human rights issues, and has held a number of jobs in the health field. She studied international development and social work at McGill University, and has an MFA from Chatham University in Pittsburgh. Her fiction, nonfiction and translations from Spanish to English have appeared in a number of journals in Canada and the United States. She has lived, studied or worked in Australia, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Switzerland, and the United States. She now lives in Ottawa on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people with her husband, three children, two cats who often walk on her keyboard, and a dog. This is her first novel.

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