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Catch Ari on NPR's Weekend Edition
Find her as one of Publishers Weekly Flying Starts
A Kirkus Profile "Writing A Letter to Her Indigenous Heritage"
Find Ari's Events and Features Long List Below Press Kit


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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.
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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, 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.
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events & features Longlist
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ALAN CONFERENCE | 2023
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YALSA | Morris Panel| 2023
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ALA | Chicago | 2023
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WORDPLAY | MINNEAPOLIS | 2023
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YALLWEST | CALIFORNIA | 2023
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OPEN BOOK | Minneapolis | 2023
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NPR WEEKEND EDITION | 2023
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KIRKUS REVIEWS | INTERVIEW | 2023
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TUcson Festival of books | ARIZONA | 2023
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TEEN AUTHOR BOOT CAMP | UTAH | 2023
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BUZZFEED'S MOST ANTICIPATED YA Of 2023 | 2023
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miami book fest | 2022
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Panelist at latinx Kidlit book fest | 2022
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panelist at slj's day of dialog | 2022
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Guest Speaker & Reader for Chatham University’s Global Studies and MFA/CWP Programs
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SHORT WORK TOOLBOX | Loft Literary Center
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POETRY CAMP | Society of Young Inklings
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Book review | Margarita engle's "Your heart my sky" in diverse verse
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"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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"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

