About

Arielle Hebert is a queer poet based in North Carolina with roots in Florida and Louisiana. She holds an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. She was included in Best New Poets 2024 and won the 2024 Lit/South Award for Poetry selected by Jericho Brown. She is grateful to have received residencies from Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, NC. Her work has appeared in Great River Review, Southern Humanities Review, Nimrod, Willow Springs, Grist, and Redivider, among others. Her debut poetry collection, Bottom Feeders, was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2026. She believes in ghosts and magic.

Arielle is the Director of Operations and helps books come to life at Blair, a nonprofit publisher focused on emerging and historically neglected voices.