My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

About the Author

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 Poet's Café Grand Slam title, as well as the New York City 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. A co-founder of Smoke Signals Studio, she lives in Los Angeles and dedicates her time merging arts and culture in community organizing with the Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project. monet's debut poetry album When The Poems Do What They Do was nominated for a Grammy in 2023.