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Arielle Twist is a Nehiyaw (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]

Writing

Published in 2019 by Arsenal Pulp Press, Disintegrate / Dissociate focuses on "human relationships, death, and metamorphosis".[6] Her poems, which have been described as raw, confrontational, and eloquent, examine themes of colonization, kinship, displacement, and transmisogyny. About her writing, Twist states that "It feels like the most vulnerable thing [she has] ever done".[7] Twist says Disintegrate / Dissociate is about "love, loss, and grief" as well as her coping with her trauma through dissociation.[7]

Awards

• Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers from the Writers' Trust of Canada (2020)[8]
• Indigenous Voices Award for English poetry (2020)[9]
• Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature (2020)[10]
• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2019)[11]
• Shortlisted for a National Magazine Award (2019)[12]

References

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