Trista Mateer is an American poet and visual artist from

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. She won the

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in 2015 for poetry with ''The Dogs I Have Kissed''. Her poetry collection ''Aphrodite Made Me Do It'' was also voted one of the best books of the year by Goodreads users in 2019. The collection, described as a

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retelling of the mythological tales of

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, integrated visual imagery, including collages, edited photographs, and

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imagery. Mateer promotes her poetry on social media, particularly

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, and has been described as an Instapoet. She is

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, and her queer identity is frequently incorporated into her poetry. Her decade-spanning poetry collection ''I Swear Somewhere This Works'' was the Bronze winner in LGBT+ Nonfiction for the 26th annual Foreword INDIES Best Books of the Year Awards.

Bibliography

*''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

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers American women poets {{US-poet-stub People from Westminster, Maryland Instagram poets American bisexual writers American LGBTQ poets Visual poets