Aya Burton is a writer and poet residing in Maine. A senior editor for 3 Sisters Literary, she formerly served as a fiction editor for Aster(ix) Journal and as a reader for Electric Lit and Autumn House Press. Aya received her MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was a Dietrich Arts & Sciences Fellow and taught Poetry, Creative Writing, and Composition courses. During her time at Pitt, she interned at University of Pittsburgh Press, received grants to study and write in Spain, and was nominated for the Elizabeth Baringer Teaching Award. She is currently writing her first novel and a collection of short stories, and works at an elementary school.