Award-winning journalist & audio producer, Sojourner's reporting has appeared at MSNBC, Poynter, NPR, WHYY, Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom’s podcast Hear to Slay & on your grandmother’s radio. She’s the recipient of a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting Fellowship, an International Women’s Media Foundation Gwen Ifill Fellowship, & Sojourner was selected as an AIR Media Scholar.
Acclaimed poet & writer, Sojourner archives moments of intimacy between Black women. She writes about insecurity of historical archives & insecurity as a feeling that connects us to our most powerful desires.
Her poems have been published in The Atlantic, The Academy of American Poets (Poem A Day), Muzzle Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2024 Watering Hole Fellowship and the prestigious MacDowell Colony Fellowship in creative writing.
She formerly served as a National Student Poet, the nation's highest honor for young poets presenting original work. Sojourner was invited to the White House by former First Lady, Michelle Obama, to garner her award.