Press & Press Kit

Upcoming Features and Appearances

• "WHEN THE UNITED STATED DENIED MY AUNT'S ATTENDANCE TO MY WEDDING" in "We the People" Exhibition at Denler gallery March 19th-April 9th

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• April 26th 7:30pm CT — Morningside After Dark Showcase: Gather 

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• Brazos Valley SCBWI Guest: From YA to POETRY MAGAZINE With Ari Tison​​

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Recent Features and Appearances

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• poem featured on Latinx Intelligentsia Podcast Episode S4:E 32

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• "Costa Rican-American Writers Making A Name for Themselves"  in Latino Stories​

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• "Publishing Stories" panel guest at Hamline University​

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• Lecturer at Hamline MFAC alumni weekend of "Innovation: What Can Land an Agent, Editor, Book Reviews, etc."

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• Podcast Guest on Chasing Creative Podcast: S7 E4: Ari Tison on Lifting Up Underrepresented Voice‪s

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Collectives/Collaborating Artist/Editor/INSTRUCTOR

• LAS MUSAS

• Diverse Verse Collective​

• Society of Young Inklings ​​

• Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop​

• Minnesota Center for the Book ArtS

• THE LOFT LITERARY CENTER

• ty Chapman

Short Bio 

Ari Tison is a Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) American poet, essayist, educator, autoethnographer, and author of YA hybrid novel SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD (2023) + Untitled YA (TBD) with FSG/BFYR. She is also forthcoming in a Latine YA anthology OUR SHADOWS HAVE CLAWS with Algonquin Young Readers (2022). Her poetry and essays have been published in Rock & Sling, Yellow Medicine, The Under Review, and most recently in POETRY's first issue for young people. She teaches creative writing at the Loft Literary Center and as an adjunct professor and lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota. 

Long Bio

Ari Tison is a Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) American poet, essayist, autoethnographer, and author of YA hybrid novel SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD (2023) + Untitled YA (TBD) with FSG/BFYR. She is also forthcoming in a Latine YA anthology OUR SHADOWS HAVE CLAWS with Algonquin Young Readers (2022). Her poetry for children has been featured in POETRY's first ever edition for young people, and her work for adults has been published in Rock & Sling, Yellow Medicine, and The Under Review. She has her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University where she was the winner of the 2018 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson award for a BIPOC writer from Lerner Publishing. She's the annual broadside editor for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop in collaboration with the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts. She teaches creative writing at the Loft Literary Center and as an adjunct professor. Ari is a Bribri language learner and story-keeper. She's represented by Sara Crowe at Pippin Properties and lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her musician and educator husband and assortment of plants.

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