About Aja Monet
Aja Monet is a poet. In 2007, at the age of nineteen, Aja Monet became the youngest individual to win the legendary Nuyorican Poet's Cafe Grand Slam champion title. She works as an inner-city youth mentor and is staff faculty at Omega Institute, using poetry and prose as a holistic healing tool. Aja Monet independently published her first book of poetry,
The Black Unicorn Sings (Penmanship Books), in 2010, and in the fall of 2012 collaborated with poet/musician Saul Williams on the book
Chorus: a literary mixtape (MTV books/Simon & Schuster). She is currently writing Science-Fiction.
