Ari Tison
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SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD
March 28, 2023 |
SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD...
Saints is told in alternating narratives and features both poetry and prose. It chronicles a pair of American brothers who belong to the Bribri people of Costa Rica and are “navigating an abusive home, new love, and a secret at school as they try to understand who they want to be—saints or otherwise.”
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Saints is told in alternating narratives and features both poetry and prose. It chronicles a pair of American brothers who belong to the Bribri people of Costa Rica and are “navigating an abusive home, new love, and a secret at school as they try to understand who they want to be—saints or otherwise.”
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ABOUT ARI...
Ari Tison is a Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) American poet, essayist, autoethnographer, and author of YA hybrid verse novel SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD (2023) and another Untitled YA (TBD) with FSG/BFYR. She is forthcoming in 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 issue for young people. She has her MFA in Writing for Children and Adults from Hamline University where she was the winner of the 2018 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson award for a BIPOC writer.
She's the annual broadside editor for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop in collaboration with the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts. She teaches creative writing at the Loft Literary Center and as an adjunct professor. Ari is a Bribri language learner and a co-translator of Bribri stories into English. She's represented by Sara Crowe at Pippin Properties and lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her musician and educator husband Grey and along with an assortment of plants.
www.AriTison.com
Ari Tison is a Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) American poet, essayist, autoethnographer, and author of YA hybrid verse novel SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD (2023) and another Untitled YA (TBD) with FSG/BFYR. She is forthcoming in 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 issue for young people. She has her MFA in Writing for Children and Adults from Hamline University where she was the winner of the 2018 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson award for a BIPOC writer.
She's the annual broadside editor for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop in collaboration with the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts. She teaches creative writing at the Loft Literary Center and as an adjunct professor. Ari is a Bribri language learner and a co-translator of Bribri stories into English. She's represented by Sara Crowe at Pippin Properties and lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her musician and educator husband Grey and along with an assortment of plants.
www.AriTison.com