Michel Jean is an award-winning writer, news anchor and investigative journalist, much appreciated by the Quebec public. After graduating, he worked at Radio-Canada and, since 2005, at TVA. He has written twelve books with sales of nearly 475,000 copies in Quebec. In addition to participating in several collectives, he has edited two short story collections featuring Indigenous voices: Amun, released in fall 2016, and Wapke, published in May 2021, both of which have been sold in English (Exile Editions) and German (Wieser Verlag). In his book Atuk, elle et nous, reissued in 2021, he talks for the first time about his native roots. Released in Quebec in 2019 and in France in 2020, Kukum, a tribute to his great-grandmother, was the best-selling novel in Quebec in 2021 and second in 2020. Qimmik was the best-selling Quebec novel in Quebec in 2023.

Michel Jean is Innu from Mashteuiatsh, and his native origins resonate in many of his writings.