Michelle Dean (born 1979) is a Canadian journalist and critic.She received a B.A. in history from McGill University in 2002 and a law degree in 2005. She worked at White & Case from 2005 to 2010. She received a Masters degree in Law from university of Toronto in 2011. 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.