Ari Tison

Ari Tison is a Bribri poet and author based in Minnesota. Her YA hybrid poetry & prose novel Saints of the Household (2023) won multiple awards including the 2024 Walter Dean Myers Award and the 2024 Pura Belpré Award; it was also a finalist for the William C. Morris Award. Ari was chosen as a 2023 Publishers Weekly Flying Start. Her poems and short works have been published in numerous national magazines.