Ahja Fox

Ahja Fox is a mother, educator, freelancer, and the current Poet Laureate of Aurora, Colorado. She has editorial, hosting, unique performance and teaching experience through working with/for the City of Aurora, Art of Storytelling, Poetix University, Copper Nickel, Poetry Brothel Denver, Kallisto Gaia Press and more. She curated Aurora Speaks with the Aurora History Museum in 2024, ran Poetry Profiles in 2023, and is the creator and mentor of Muse Mentorship. Ahja was a CAAPP Book Prize Finalist in 2021, a GASHER Press First Book Scholarship Finalist in 2022, and a Sharon Prize Finalist in 2025. She is passionate about the transformative power and impact of stories and believes resources and knowledge-sharing are the greatest ways to preserve art.