Aja Monetaja monet is a Caribbean-American poet, performer, and educator from Brooklyn. She has been awarded the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe Grand Slam title, as well as the New York City YWCA's "One to Watch Award." Se is the author of The Black Unicorn Sings and the coeditor, with Saul Williams, of Chorus: A Literary Mixtape. She lives in Little Haiti, Miami, where she is a cofounder of Smoke Signals Studio and dedicates her time merging arts and culture in community organizing with the Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project. Read More Read Less