Susan-Sojourna Collier is an Emmy Nominated veteran television writer, who has worked on daytime drama series, including All My Children, Port Charles, and One Life to Live. She partnered with the late Tommy Ford to produce two features for Lionsgate/Grindstone. The first, Conflict of Interest, is the highest-rated film on Aspire TV. The second feature, Switching Lanes, received the Best Feature honor at the Kingdomwood Christian Film Festival. She also penned the screenplay Get the Show on the Road, an adaptation of a romantic comedy novel, which was a semi-finalist in the Tribeca Screenwriting Festival.

Susan-Sojourna has authored four plays produced throughout the east coast and was a recipient of Playwrights Horizon Theatre’s Black Ink Reading Festival, winner of the New York’s New Professional Theatre’s Writing Festival and Walt Disney Television Writing Fellowship. 

Currently, she is finishing the documentary - Through My Lens: A Study of Bullying in the African American Community. 

Susan-Sojourna is an Assistant Art Professor at New York University Tisch School and she is the co-founder of the Mamie & Jimmie Collier Writing Fellowship with her sister - Yasmin Collier-Rucker.

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