Ari Tison

Ari is a Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) American and African descended poet and the author of forthcoming YA hybrid poetry & prose novel Saints of the Household  (2023) and another YA (2024) with FSG/Macmillan. She is also forthcoming in various anthologies including Our Shadows Have Claws a Latine YA anthology (2022) with Algonquin Young Readers. Her poems and short works have been published in Yellow Medicine Review, The Under Review, Rock & Sling, and POETRY's first ever edition for children. She was the winner of the 2018 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson award for a BIPOC writer with Lerner Publishing. Source