

Ari Tison is an award-winning Author and poet for children, young adults, & adults.


Poet & Author


educator
She has her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults (MFAC) from Hamline University. She has taught workshops for teens and adults at Hamline’s Young Writers Workshop and the Loft Literary Center. She teaches poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and English as an adjunct professor.

& story-keeper
Ari is a budding autoethnographer and studies her Indigenous language, culture, and stories with her Bribri mentor. She works alongside him to co-translate stories into English.
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. She lives in Saint Paul, the traditional, contemporary, and ancestral lands of the Dakota 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!

