Arielle Twist

Arielle Twist is a Cree poet from Canada.[1] Her debut poetry collection Disintegrate / Dissociate was published in 2019, and won the Indigenous Voices Award for English poetry in 2020;[2] in the same year, Twist won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers.[3]

A member of the George Gordon First Nation from Saskatchewan,[4] Twist identifies as transgender and Two-Spirit.[5] She was mentored in her early career by writer Kai Cheng Thom.[1]

References
  1. Morgan Mullin, "Behind the verse with Arielle Twist". The Coast, August 13, 2020.
  2. "Winners Announced for 2020 Indigenous Voices Awards". Open Book, June 22, 2020.
  3. "4 emerging Canadian writers receive $10K prizes from Writers' Trust of Canada". CBC Books, October 21, 2020.
  4. Jane van Koeverden, "Arielle Twist explores grief in her poetry and finds a home in the Indigenous arts community". CBC Books, April 29, 2019.
  5. Kyle Muzyka, "Why two-spirit, trans writer Arielle Twist is afraid of love". Unreserved, February 8, 2019.


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