Ari Tison is the award-winning poet and author of YA novel Saints of the Household (FSG) which was the winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award, the winner of the 2024 Pura Belpré Award, the winner of the 2024 Walden Award, the winner of the 2024 Américas Award, and a finalist for the William C. Morris Award. Saints has appeared on a number of Best Lists including Best Book of the Month by Amazon, Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, New York Public Library, BCCB, YALSA, Chicago Public Library and others.

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Ari's work has received a number of starred trade reviews and she has been featured on NPR's Weekend Edition and chosen as a Publishers Weekly Flying Start. Saints of the Household was an NPR Book of the Day and was selected as a JLG Gold Standard Selection.

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Her short stories have been widely anthologized and included in Our Shadows Have Claws (Algonquin), Relit Anthology (HarperCollins), and Sing Me a Story: Short Stories in Verse (Penguin/Random House). Her poems and short works have been published in a number of national magazines including POETRY's first ever edition for children.

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Ari graduated with her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults and now is on faculty in Hamline's MFAC program in Saint Paul, MN. 

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Her next YA novel comes out in 2025. Ari is Ash Creek Fish Clan and belongs to the Bribri tribe of contemporary Costa Rica, a globally and federally recognized tribe. She lives in the Twin Cities of Minnesota with her family.