Brian Sonia-Wallace

Brian Sonia-Wallace is the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and the author of The Poetry of Strangers (Harper Collins). They are the former Poet Laureate of West Hollywood, an Academy of American Poets Fellow, and the Poet-in-Residence for both Amtrak and the Mall of America. Brian has written over 10,000 poems for strangers across the world on a manual typewriter. He teaches at UCLA Extension and leads school outreach for Get Lit - Words Ignite.