Alicia Elliott

Alicia Elliott (born 1987 or 1988 ) is a Tuscarora and Mohawk writer and editor.

Early life and education Elliott was born in the United States and moved with her family to the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve in Ontario when she was 13. In 2016, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson asked Elliott to contribute to the issue of The Malahat Review she was editing.

The next year, Elliott was selected by Tanya Talaga to receive the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award, which includes a cash prize and a mentorship component. A collection of Elliott's essays, also titled A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, was published by Penguin Random House in 2019.

From 2017–2018 she was the Geoffrey and Margaret Andrew Fellow at the University of British Columbia. She was selected as the first mentor-in-residence for Canadian feminist literary journal Room and served as the creative nonfiction editor at The Fiddlehead from 2018 through 2020. The book was the winner of the 2024 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.

Awards and honours Gold prize at the National Magazine Awards for "A Mind Spread Out on the Ground" (2017). "Unearth," Grain issue 44.3, Spring 2017.

Essays "A Mind Spread Out on the Ground," The Malahat Review, Winter 2016. "The Meaning of Elections for Six Nations," Briarpatch, 2016. "On Seeing and Being Seen: The Difference Between Writing With Empathy and Writing with Love," Room, 2018.