Assistant Professor, Creative Writing and English
School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing
Alicia Elliott
Alicia Elliott is a Mohawk writer living in Brantford, Ontario.
She has written for The Globe and Mail, CBC, Hazlitt and many others.
She’s had essays nominated for National Magazine Awards for three straight years, winning Gold in 2017, and her short fiction was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018, Best Canadian Stories 2018, and Journey Prize Stories 30.
She was chosen by Tanya Talaga as the 2018 recipient of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award.
Her first book, A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, (Doubleday Canada) is a national bestseller, was a Globe and Mail, Chatelaine and Quill and Quire best-book selection, and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Her most recent book, And Then She Fell, (Doubleday Canada; Atlantic Books and Dutton US) was also a national bestseller, as well as a Globe and Mail “Best Book of 2023″; a Most Anticipated Book Pick by Good Morning America, Bustle, CrimeReads, Electric Literature, Debutiful, Ms. Magazine, The Nerd Daily, and Paste, and was the 2024 Gryphons Read selection for 2024.