Sojourner Kincade Rolle is a poet/playwright and Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Emerita (2015-2017). Free at Last: A Juneteenth Poem was released May 2022 to great acclaim, in time for the first national celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the USA. It made the New York Public Library’s list for Best Kids’ Books 2022, the School Library Journal’s best kids’ books for Black History Month (2023), and Booklist’s Editor’s Choice in the youth category (2022). Her other books are The Mellow Yellow Global Umbrella, Common Ancestry and Black Street.