About

Arielle Hebert is a queer poet based in North Carolina with roots in Florida and Louisiana. Her debut poetry collection, Bottom Feeders, was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in June 2026. She holds an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University and a BA in creative writing from Florida State University. She has won the Lit/South Award for Poetry and the Claire Keyes Poetry Prize and has been a finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the New Letters Literary Awards, and the Pink Poetry Prize. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and her work has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Poetry Daily, Best New Poets, Grist, Great River Review, Nimrod, and Redivider, among others. Arielle is the 2025-2026 fellow at Hellbender Gathering of Poets, an annual writing conference that celebrates poetry, environmental science, and community to bring about a joyful rising in a climate-changed world. She is the Director of Operations and Marketing at Blair, a nonprofit independent publisher uplifting emerging and diverse writers from the South and beyond. Arielle believes in ghosts and magic.