Assotto Saint

Assotto Saint (born Yves Francois Lubin) was a Haitian-born American writer, performer,

publisher and AIDS activist. As Publisher of Galiens Press, Assotto published two volumes of his

poetry Stations and Wishing For Wings, he edited two seminal anthologies of Black gay writing:

1991 Lambda Literary Award winner The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets and Here To Dare: 10

Gay Black Poets. He was also the author of such plays as Risin' To The Love We Need, New Love

Song, Black Fag and Nuclear Lovers. In 1990, he was awarded both the Fellowship in Poetry from the

New York Foundation for the Arts and the James Baldwin Award from the Black Gay Leadership

Forum. Born in Haiti, October 2, 1957, he lived in New York City with Jan Urban Holmgren, his

life partner and co-founder of Metamorphosis Theater and the techno-pop band Xotika. Saint

died June 29,1994 of AIDS. Assotto Saint's poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, and plays are

gathered in Sacred Spells: Collected Works (Nightboat Books, 2023).