Open Word: Arielle Twist and Gwen Benaway
Program, P.2564
- Identifier
- P.2564
- Type
- Literary readings
- Category
- Literary
- Date
- November 19, 2019
- Description
- Arielle Twist is a Nehiyaw, Two-Spirit Trans Woman creating to reclaim and harness ancestral magic and memories as an author and multidisciplinary artist. Originally from George Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan, she is now based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Within her short career, she has attended a residency at Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, had work published with Them, Canadian Art, The Fiddlehead, PRISM International, This Magazine, and CBC Art, been Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and Shortlisted in The National Magazine Awards. Her first book of poetry, Disintegrate/Dissociate, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2019.