Monique Mitchell is an internationally-acclaimed poet and creative strategist based in Los Angeles. Her poetry was commissioned by the City of Los Angeles for the 2024/2028 Cultural Olympiad. She has collaborated on global campaigns for Puma, Lexus, Maria Shriver, and Fox Network; as well as for social movements like March for Our Lives. Her poetry has garnered over 4M views online, and she successfully defended California Senate Bill 933, which allocated $50M for arts education across California.

Monique’s writing has been published in The New York Times, A24’s companion book for the Academy Award-winning film Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Cultural Weekly. She has led workshops and performed at The Getty, The Hammer, LACMA, and MOCA

In addition to her literary accomplishments, Monique served as the creative advisor and memoirist to Nana Kwame Bediako, Ghana’s CEO of the Decade and 2024 Presidential candidate. Here, she leveraged storytelling to drive cultural impact on behalf of Kwarleyz Group.

She returned to California to work with the late showrunner, Paul Eckstein, who trained her as a Director of Development. As a brand strategist, she has written campaigns and produced live activations for Focus Features, Ovation, Peter Kim’s Golden Circle Group, and more.

As a multimedia artist, Monique uses found text and video, as well as canvas, paint, beads, braids, and other diverse materials to explore the parallels between astronomy and identity. She plays with the impossibly rich textures that make up nature and Blackness, pushing back against colonialism’s attempts to suppress both.

Her work is a call to observe the universe within; to walk this Earth as if you are a star. (You are.)

Monique studied Cinema Studies & Creative Writing at Manhattanville College in New York, and when she is not reading a book, she can be found reading the heavens.