Ari Tison is an award-winning Author and poet for children, young adults, & adults.
Ari is a Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) American and African descended poet and the author of forthcoming YA hybrid poetry & prose novel Saints of the Household (2023) and another YA (2024) with FSG/Macmillan. She is also forthcoming in various anthologies including Our Shadows Have Claws a Latine YA anthology (2022) with Algonquin Young Readers.
Her poems and short works have been published in Yellow Medicine Review, The Under Review, Rock & Sling, and POETRY's first ever edition for children.
She was the winner of the 2018 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson award for a BIPOC writer with Lerner Publishing.
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educator
She has her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults (MFAC) from Hamline University. She regularly teaches workshops and panels for children, teens, and adults through organizations like Hamline’s Young Writers Workshop and the Loft Literary Center. She teaches poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and English as an adjunct professor. She teaches at Hamline University.
She currently serves as the Mentor Coordinator for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop where she gets be part of extending Minnesota's literary community to those incarcerated.
& story-keeper
Ari is an autoethnographer and folklorist. She studies Bribri stories, language, and retellings with her mentor and her studies often inform her work.
She grew up in the literary Twin Cities of Minnesota and is grateful to be surrounded by storytellers since the beginning!
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Ari is represented by Sara Crowe at Pippin Properties and is a member of Las Musas, Diverse Verse, and other literary collectives. She lives in Saint Paul, the traditional, contemporary, and ancestral lands of the Dakota & Anishinaabe people. She lives with her musician and educator husband, Grey. To keep up with book news, class offerings & discounts, and artsy giveaways join her insider newsletter here!
