Antonia Kilday

Antonia is a poet, entrepreneur, and cyber-security professional living in Northern Virginia with her husband and daughter. A Connecticut native, she left home and college to enlist in the U.S. Army in 2001. Antonia began writing at 9 years old and never stopped. In 2013, Antonia published her first poetry collection, Love Like Fall, garnering much praise. Her second collection of poetry is underway and due for release Winter 2016.

When she isn't writing, Antonia runs her bath & body products company, Aphrodite's Kiss Soaps, LLC, handcrafting natural soaps, skin care, beard care, and home fragrance for men and women.

Some of her favorite things are horror films and novels, painting, being a kid again with her daughter, Disney/Pixar movies, picking up new hobbies, Star Wars, cruising with the top down, and collecting knives.