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 won the 2024 Lit/South Award for Poetry selected by Jericho Brown and was included in Best New Poets 2024 guest edited by Anders Carlson-Wee. Her work has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Grist, Great River Review, Nimrod, Willow Springs, and Redivider, among others. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Bottom Feeders is her debut poetry collection forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2026. Arielle believes in ghosts and magic.