Arielle Twist is a Nehiyaw (Cree) poet from Canada. Her debut poetry collection Disintegrate / Dissociate was published in 2019, and won the Indigenous Voices Award for English poetry in 2020; in the same year, Twist won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers. A member of the George Gordon First Nation from Saskatchewan, Twist identifies as transgender and Two-Spirit. She was mentored in her early career by writer Kai Cheng Thom. en