Arielle Twist is a Nehiyaw (Cree)[1] multidisciplinary artist and sex educator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
[3] After publishing a poetry collection, Disintegrate / Dissociate, in 2019,[4] she began working as a sex educator at Venus Envy[4] and become an MFA candidate at OCAD University Graduate Studies in the Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design programme.
[6] Twist won the Indigenous Voices Award for English poetry[7] and the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers in 2020.
[3] Twist debuted as an author with a collection of thirty-eight poems[10] in her book Disintegrate / Dissociate published on June 4, 2019 by Arsenal Pulp Press.
[3] The poem "Manifest" in the book was dedicated to editor Billy-Ray Belcourt who also held residency at the Banff Centre while Twist was there.