BIO

Sony Ton-Aime is a Haitian poet, essayist, translator, and Executive Director of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures. Before joining Pittsburgh Arts & Lecture, he served as the Michael I. Rudell Director of Literary Arts at Chautauqua Institution and Program Coordinator at Lake Erie Ink. 

 

He is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Konbit (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2026), the chapbook, LaWomann (Ironworks Press, 2019), the Haitian Creole translation of Olympic Hero: The Lennox Kilgour’s Story, co-author of the Haitian Creole course on Duolingo, and co-founding editor of ID13. 

 

His work has appeared and is forthcoming in Artful Dodge, Consequence Forum, Poets.org, Idaho Review, Hunger Mountain Review, and Cleveland Review of Books, among others.