Sony Ton-Aime is a poet, essayist, and translator. His works include a poetry collection, Konbit (Carnegie Mellon Univeristy Press, 2026), and a Haitian Creole translation of Olympic Hero: The Lennox Kilgour’s Story. He co-authored the Haitian Creole course on Duolingo, and his work has appeared in Artful Dodge, Cream City Review, Idaho Review, Hunger Mountain Review, Cleveland Review of Books, and Consequence Forum, among others. He lives in Pittsburgh, where he currently works as the executive director of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures.
Christine Stroud is a poet living in Pittsburgh, PA, and is the editor in chief of Autumn House Press. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University, where she earned the Best Thesis in Poetry award, and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Her chapbook, The Buried Return, was released by Finishing Line Press in March of 2014, and her second chapbook, Sister Suite, was released from Disorder Press in 2017. Stroud’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hobart, the Ninth Letter online, The Paterson Literary Review, Cimarron Review, The Laurel Review, and many others as well as several anthologies, including The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South.
