Michelle Porter is a part-time freelance writer and journalist and full-time mother living in Saint John, New Brunswick. She graduated from Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta with a B.A. in Communications and Journalism. After working with the "Telegraph Journal", New Brunswick's daily newspaper, she decided to work as a freelancer. She has written news and magazine stories, short stories, and radio dramas, and put together the curriculum for a creative non-fiction writing course, which she then taught.