Alicia Elliott is an award-winning Haudenosaunee writer who has had work published in The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Vice, and The Best American Short Stories 2018, among others. She has been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Born in Buffalo, New York, and raised between there and Ohio, she now lives with her husband and child in Brantford, Ontario.