Ari Tison (Bribri) is the award-winning poet and author of YA hybrid poetry & prose novel Saints of the Household  (2023) 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,  the winner of the Amelia Walden Award, the winner of the Américas Award, and a finalist for the William C. Morris Award and the International Literacy Award. 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. Her poems and short works have been published in a number of national magazines including POETRY's first ever edition for children. Her poem "The Storyteller Gets Her Name" is a part of national K-4th ELA curriculum reaching over 3 million young readers. Her debut picture book When I Was A Little Girl (HarperCollins) and her next YA novel Together We See (FSG) are slated for 2026. Ari teaches at Hamline University's MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Ari belongs to the Bribri tribe, one of the eight federally and globally recognized tribes of contemporary Costa Rica. She lives in the Twin Cities, Minnesota with her sons.