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Aja 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 Poets Cafe Grand Slam title, as well as the New York City's YWCA's "One to Watch" Award. She is the author of The Black Unicorn Sings and the co-editor, 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 to merging arts and culture with community organizing through her work with the Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project.