Erika L. Sánchez
Biography
Erika L. Sánchez
Erika L. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. A poet, essayist and fiction writer, she is the author of a young adult novel, I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017), a National Book Award Finalist and the poetry collection, LESSONS ON EXPULSION (Graywolf, 2017), a finalist of the Pen America Open Book Award. Her nonfiction has been published in Al Jazeera, Cosmopolitan, ESPN.com, the Guardian, NBC News, Rolling Stone, Salon and elsewhere. She has received a CantoMundo Fellowship, a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She is a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow
Erika L. Sánchez