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. He has judged for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance prizes, the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction. From 2004 to 2024, Curtis was quartermaster at Books & Books, Miami’s largest independent bookstore. He lives in Florida.
