Michelle Dean is a Canadian journalist and critic. She currently lives and works in the United States of America.
Dean was honored in 2016 with the National Book Critics' Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and Elle. Her first book, Sharp: The Women Who Made An Art of Having An Opinion, was published by Grove Atlantic in 2018.