Trista Mateer
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Trista Mateer is an American poet 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 poetry collection Aphrodite Made Me Do It was also voted one of the best books of the year by Goodreads users in 2019.[4] The collection, described as a feminist retelling of the mythological tales of Aphrodite, integrated visual imagery, including collages, edited photographs, and tarot card imagery.[5]
Mateer promotes her poetry on social media, particularly Instagram, and has been described as an Instapoet.[6][7] She is bisexual, and her queer identity is frequently incorporated into her poetry.[8][9] 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.[10][11]
