Ari Tison is a Bribri poet and the author of YA hybrid poetry & prose novel Saints of the Household  (2023) and another YA (2025) with FSG/Macmillan. Saints of the Household was the winner of the 2024 Walter Dean Myers Award, the winner of the 2024 Pura Belpré Award, a finalist for the William C. Morris Award, and was a Junior Library Guild Gold selection. Saints was chosen as a Best Book of the Month by Amazon, and Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, New York Public Library, BCCB, and Chicago Public Library along with receiving starred trade reviews from Kirkus, BCCB, and SLJ. Ari was chosen as a 2023 Publishers Weekly Flying Start.  

Ari's work has been widely anthologized and has been included in Our Shadows Have Claws with Algonquin Young Readers (2022),  ReLit Anthology with HarperCollins (2024), and Sing Me A Story: Short Stories in Verse with Penguin (2024). Her poems and short works have been published in a number of national magazines including POETRY's first ever edition for children. She was the winner of the 2018 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson award and teaches at Hamline University's MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.