Aaron John Curtis
Aaron John Curtis is an enrolled member of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, which he'll tell you is the white name for the American side of Akwesasne. Aaron has judged for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Prizes, the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Since 2004, Aaron has been quartermaster at Books & Books, Miami’s largest independent bookstore. He lives in Miami.
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and core of the Pacific Northwest Coast peoples—the Cedar Tree, known as the Tree of Life. We are
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