Brian Sonia-Wallace
Brian Sonia-Wallace’s books include The Poetry of Strangers (Harper Collins, 2020 “Full of optimism and wide-eyed wonder” - The New York Times) and I sold these poems, now I want them back (Yak Press, 2016). His writing has been published in The Guardian and Rolling Stone, and he teaches creative writing through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and Get Lit - Words Ignite. He is the founder of RENT Poet (as seen on NPR’s How I Built This), bringing poets on typewriters to events, and has been the Writer in Residence for Amtrak and the Mall of America. His favorite animal is the 3-toed sloth. More at briansoniawallace.com.
