Alicia Elliott is an award-winning Mohawk writer and editor living in Brantford, Ontario. Her first book, A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, was a national bestseller in 2019, and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Her second book, the novel And Then She Fell, was published in fall of 2023. It was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and went on to win the Amazon First Novel Award, the Indigenous Voices Award for Prose in English, and the First Nations Community READS Award. Elliott currently teaches at the University of Guelph. 

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