Join award-winning Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott as she discusses A Mind Spread Out On The Ground with BPL's Simcoe Reads Champion Carolina Belmares.
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About Alicia Elliott
Alicia Elliott is a Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River. Her writing has been published by The Malahat Review, Room, Grain, CBC, The Globe and Mail, and Maclean's, among others. She is currently creative nonfiction editor at The Fiddlehead, associate nonfiction editor at Little Fiction | Big Truths, and a consulting editor with The New Quarterly. Her essay “A Mind Spread Out on the Ground” won Gold at the National Magazine Awards in 2017. Elliott lives in Brantford, Ontario, with her husband and child.
7 Libraries. 7 Books. 1 Winner. Barrie Public Library has joined with 6 other libraries (Bradford West Gwillimbury, Essa, Innisfil, Midland, New Tecumseth, and Ramara) to offer author visits all summer long as we prepare for this cover to cover competition.
About A Mind Spread Out On The Ground
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award-winning Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott.
In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing and representation, and in the process makes connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political—from overcoming a years-long battle with head lice to the way Native writers are treated within the Canadian literary industry; her unplanned teenage pregnancy to the history of dark matter and how it relates to racism in the court system; her childhood diet of Kraft Dinner to how systemic oppression is directly linked to health problems in Native communities.
With deep consideration and searing prose, Elliott provides a candid look at our past, an illuminating portrait of our present and a powerful tool for a better future.
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