Trista Mateer is an American writer and visual artist from Westminster, Maryland. She won the Goodreads Choice Award in 2015 for poetry with The Dogs I Have Kissed.[1][2] Her collection Aphrodite Made Me Do It was also voted one of the best books of the year by Goodreads users in 2019.[3] She has been invited to speak on multiple occasions about cultivating a social media presence for poetry[4] and for the importance of queer representation in media.