Literary Reading Series – Alicia Elliott
Saturday, April 4th
Alicia is a Tuscarora writer living in Brantford, Ontario. With her essay A Mind Spread Out On The Ground she made her mark as an author, and in 2018 won the ABC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. In 2019 her first collection of essays, bearing the title of that first essay, appeared and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Nonfiction. A review describes it as: “A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America.