Ava Pauline Emilione

Ava Pauline Emilione (they/them) is a writer from Brooklyn, New York. Their writing has been published in The Nation, Them, Fruitslice, Salty and Expat Press. They are a 2025 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, as well as the founding Editor-in-Chief of Ebony Tomatoes Collective, a literary and arts magazine centering Black writers. They are working on their debut novel about queerness, memory and mental health.