Ari Tison is a Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) poet and author. Her debut YA hybrid prose and poetry novel SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD (FSG/Macmillan) released March 2023 and has received three starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and BCCB and was selected as a JLG Gold Standard Selection, an Amazon Best Book of April, and was featured on NPR and chosen as an NPR Book of the Day. She's been interviewed for NPR's Weekend Edition and featured on Kirkus Reviews Most Anticipated Books of 2023 as well as other most anticipated lists from BuzzFeed, Paste Magazine, and elsewhere. She was a graduate of Hamline's MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults (MFAC) where she won the Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Award from Lerner Publishing. Ari now serves on faculty in the MFAC program. She also serves as the coordinator for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop's mentorship program and is a member of Las Musas and a founding member of Diverse Verse. You can also find her poetry and short works at POETRY, Yellow Medicine Review, The Under Review, Rock & Sling and OUR SHADOWS HAVE CLAWS anthology with Algonquin and forthcoming RELIT with HarperCollins. Her next YA with FSG is out Winter 2025. Ari is represented by Sara Crowe and lives in a valley farm in Wisconsin with her son and husband.