Writer. gemini. Feminista. 

Born and raised by Greek and Guatemalan immigrants, ARIADNE MAKRIDAKIS ARROYO (she/they) is a Los Angeles-based poet, writer, arts administrator, and feminista who grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. They completed their Bachelor’s degree in Critical Theory & Social Justice at Occidental College in 2020 where they were awarded the 2019 Argonaut Summer Research/Creative Writing Fellowship under the guidance of fiction writer Zinzi Clemmons. Her work has been featured in Evocations Review, Stonecoast Review, Latin@ Literatures, Tasteful Rude, and Acentos Review, among others. In 2023, they were awarded a speculative fiction fellowship with Roots. Wounds. Words. and have been named the 2025 LGBTQIA+ residency fellow with The Sundress Academy for the Arts. Currently, Ariadne’s work centers queer, feminist, and Latine perspectives in a way that explores the crossroads of radical joy, sexuality, brujería, and ancestral healing.