PRESS | Ari Tison

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Short Bio

Ari Tison is an award-winning Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) American poet, essayist, educator, autoethnographer, and author of YA hybrid novel SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD (2023) + Untitled YA (2025) with FSG/BFYR. Her short stories have been published or are forthcoming with OUR SHADOWS HAVE CLAWS with Algonquin Young Readers (2022) and RELIT with Harper Collins. Her poetry and essays have been published in various literary journals including POETRY's first issue for young people. She has her MFA from Hamline University and now teaches in the MFAC program.

Long Bio

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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. 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.

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