Michelle Porter

AX Literary Series: Michelle Porter

September 18, 6pm

AX Literary Series:

Friday, September 18, 6pm
FREE Event. Donations welcomed and appreciated!

Join us on Friday, September 18 at 6:00pm in the AX Gallery (12 Maple Ave, Sussex, NB) for a special evening with author Michelle Porter, moderated by Margaret Anne Smith. Porter will read from her novel A Glacier’s Guide to Dying.

This free event is part of the AX Literary Series—donations are welcomed and appreciated.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from this up and coming local author

Thank you to the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture for their support of this event.

Bio

MICHELLE PORTER is the descendent of a long line of Métis storytellers. Many of her ancestors told stories using music and today she tells stories using the written word. She holds degrees in Journalism, Folklore, English, and a PhD in Geography. Her academic research and creative work focus on home, memory, and women’s changing relationships with the land.

Her most recent book, Scratching River, a memoir exploring the meaning of her Métis heritage through her older brother’s life story, was published by Wilfrid Laurier Press in April 2022. She’s also published a book of creative nonfiction about her great-grandfather, a fiddler from the Red River, called Approaching Fire (shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award 2021) and a book of poetry, Inquiries, (shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award). Michelle has won numerous awards for her poetry and journalism and her work has been published in literary journals and magazines across the country. Currently she is teaching creative writing and Métis Literature at Memorial University. She is a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation and she lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Book Description

A Glacier’s Guide to Dying by Michelle Porter is a powerful and imaginative novel that follows Robbie, a young Métis man searching for his missing father while navigating family trauma, identity, and the growing impacts of climate change. As he journeys toward a remote glacier, Robbie begins hearing the voice of the glacier itself, blurring the boundaries between the natural world, memory, and inheritance. Blending humour, Indigenous storytelling, and contemporary concerns, the novel explores themes of belonging, healing, family, and humanity’s relationship with the land.

Moderator Bio

Margaret Anne Smith is an educator, writer, and fibre artist, and works at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John. She holds a PhD in English literature and languages from Queen’s University, and has served in various teaching and administrative capacities during her career. She lives, works, and writes near the shores of the Bay of Fundy in eastern Canada; the beauty and fragility of this ecosystem shapes her life, writing and practice.

Michelle Porter

AX Literary Series: Michelle Porter

AX Literary Series:

Michelle Porter

Bio

Book Description

Moderator Bio

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture for their support of this event.