Ava Pauline Emilione (they/them) is a writer from Brooklyn, New York. Their writing has been published or is forthcoming in Them, Salon, 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.