Trista Mateer

Trista Mateer is an American writer and visual artist from Westminster, Maryland.[1] She won the Goodreads Choice Award in 2015 for poetry with The Dogs I Have Kissed.[2][3] Her collection Aphrodite Made Me Do It was also voted one of the best books of the year by Goodreads users in 2019.[4] She has been invited to speak on multiple occasions about cultivating a social media presence for poetry[5] and for the importance of queer representation in media.[6] Her decade-spanning poetry collection "I Swear Somewhere This Works" was awarded the Bronze in LGBT+ Nonfiction for the 26th annual Foreword INDIES Best Books of the Year Awards. [7][8][9]

Bibliography

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  • Small Ghost (Central Avenue Publishing, 2024)
  • Persephone Made Me Do It (Central Avenue Publishing, 2023)
  • I Swear Somewhere This Works (independently published, 2023)
  • Artemis Made Me Do It (Central Avenue Publishing, 2022)
  • girl, isolated: poems, notes on healing, etc. (independently published, 2021)
  • When the Stars Wrote Back (Random House, 2020)
  • Aphrodite Made Me Do It (Central Avenue Publishing, 2019)
  • Honeybee (Central Avenue Publishing, 2018)
  • The Dogs I Have Kissed (independently published, 2015)

References

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  1. ^ https://www.tristamateerpoetry.com/bio.html
  2. ^ Wilson, Kristian. "2015 Goodreads Choice Award Winners Announced". Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  3. ^ Hetter, Katia (December 2015). "Goodreads readers pick best books of 2015". CNN. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  4. ^ "Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Poetry!". Goodreads. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  5. ^ "BookCon 2018: Social Media Poetry Explosion". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  6. ^ https://www.tristamateerpoetry.com/press.html
  7. ^ https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winners/2023/lgbtq-1/
  8. ^ https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/718123629/popular-poet-trista-mateer-wins-bronze-in-2023-foreword-indies-book-of-the-year-awards
  9. ^ https://www.krqe.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/718123629/popular-poet-trista-mateer-wins-bronze-in-2023-foreword-indies-book-of-the-year-awards/