Award-winning Six Nations author Alicia Elliott has been appointed by Wilfrid Laurier University for a one-year term as the Laurier Stedman Fellow. Elliott is a Mohawk writer from Six Nations of the Grand River who first garnered attention in 2019 for A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, a bestselling collection of essays and winner of the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. Her 2023 novel, And Then She Fell, won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Indigenous Voices Award for Prose in English in June 2024. “I’m honoured to serve as a fellow at Laurier Brantford, which is not only my people’s traditional territory, but also the city I call home,” said Elliott. “Brantford has long informed my writing, so having this chance to mentor other aspiring writers,…
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