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.
Her debut poetry chapbook, Reporting from the Belly of the Night, was released in August 2017.
Sojourner believes not in the boat that floated her here, but what she’ll do with the water.
