Sojourner served as Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California, from 2015-2017. She has authored three collections of poetry: The Mellow Yellow Global Umbrella, Common Ancestry, and Black Street. A selection of her poems appears in What Breathes Us: Santa Barbara Poets Laureate 2005-2015. Sojourner's work is included in The Library Book, which commemorates the founding of the Santa Barbara Public Library and To Give Life A Shape, honoring the founding of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Sojourner's forthcoming book Where The Hum Begins is a collection of "place" poems inspired by the California Central Coast and beyond.Sojourner says that she "regularly responds to the call for an ekphrastic poem". In this rich milieu, she has composed and read poems at venues such as Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery, Channing Peake Gallery, Faulkner Gallery, and Cabrillo Pavilion Arts Center. Sojourner has led poetry workshops in schools, taught creative writing through UCLA Extension in the California Arts in Corrections program and African American literature at UCSB, and served as judge in Santa Barbara¿s Poetry Out Loud.

She has engaged young poets through her Song of Place Poetry Project, City At Peace, Speak for the Creeks, and Annual Young Writers Poetry Contest. Sojourner serves as chair of the annual Martin Luther King Poetry and Essay Contest, is a past board member of California Poets-in-the-Schools, and is a former associate editor for Sage Trail Poetry Magazine. From 2014-2016, she hosted a monthly poetry series and since 2002, has organized an annual tribute to poet Langston Hughes.Sojourner Kincaid Rolle is poet, playwright, an environmental educator, and a peace activist.