Arielle Twist is a Nehiyaw (Cree) multidisciplinary artist and sex educator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is originally from George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan. and describes herself as a Two-Spirit, transgender woman. She was mentored in her early career by the writer Kai Cheng Thom. After publishing a poetry collection, Disintegrate / Dissociate, in 2019, she began working as a sex educator at Venus Envy and become an MFA candidate at OCAD University Graduate Studies in the Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design programme. She has also worked in visual and performance art. The institutions that feature in Twist's curriculum vitae include the Khyber Centre for the Arts, the Toronto Media Arts Centre, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, the Centre for Art Tapes, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Twist won the Indigenous Voices Award for English poetry and the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers in 2020.