Spend an afternoon with Haudenosaunee bestselling author and Western Writer-in-Residence Alicia Elliott. Alicia will read essays from her bestseller, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, and lead a Q&A with the Zoom audience.

Click here to listen to Alicia’s book for FREE via Spotify.

Five copies of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground are available for reservation and loan at Weldon Library.

About Alicia Elliott
Alicia Elliott is a Mohawk writer who has written for The Washington Post, Maclean's, Chatelaine and Hazlitt, among others. Her essays have been nominated for and won National Magazine Awards, and her fiction was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018, Best Canadian Stories 2018 and Journey Prize Stories 30. She was the winner of the Canada Council Grant for 2020-2021: Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. Alicia was also chosen by Tanya Talaga as the 2018 recipient of the RBC Emerging Writer Award. Her bestselling first book, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, was nominated for the HIlary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, as well as named a best book of 2019 by CBC Books, Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire and others.