Aaron Aquilina is an academic with the University of Malta’s Department of English. His book The Ontology of Death has been published with Bloomsbury (2023), and his work on poetry, prose, and literary theory has been published in various journals and edited collections. He has also published some poetry, with his latest two appearing in the International Human Rights Arts Journal (2024). He is the founding general editor of ANTAE, an online journal of creative writing that has been active since 2013 (www.um.edu.mt/antae/).

Aaron Aquilina's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.