Erika Sánchez
Erika Sánchez (* 1984 ), also known as Erika L. Sánchez , is an American author who is known for her poetry and youth literature . She also works as a journalist .
life and work
Erika Sánchez grew up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants without a residence permit in Cicero . She initially studied at the University of Illinois at Chicago and continued her studies in Madrid, where she also taught English. She later graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in creative writing . Between 2012 and 2014 Erika Sánchez wrote columns on love and sexuality for Cosmopolitan for Latinas magazine. Journalistic texts by her have also appeared in well-known newspapers such as The Guardian , Rolling Stone , Cosmopolitan and the Kirkus Reviews . Some articles have been translated into multiple languages. Lyrical texts have appeared in Pleiades, Hunger Mountain, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ostrich Review, Copper Nickel, Vinyl Poetry, Guernica, diode, Boston Review , ESPN.com , the Paris Review , Gulf Coast, POETRY Magazine and in the anthology Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation , published by Viking in 2015.
It is one of Erika Sánchez's concerns to bring the subject of mental health into public discourse with her writing.
Honourings and prices
In 2013 Erika Sánchez was honored as a discovery of the Boston Review , in 2015 she received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship of the Poetry Foundation . She received other scholarships from the Fulbright Program and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference , as well as a Princeton Art Fellowship 2017-2019. Her youth novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter was on the New York Times bestseller list and was in the Young's category People's Literature nominated for the National Book Award .
Publications
- 2017 Lessons on Expulsion , Greywolf Publishing
- 2017 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Knopf Books for Young Readers
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erika L. Sánchez. Retrieved January 19, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Latina author Erika Sánchez fought to write about a 'snarky brown girl.' It's been a huge hit. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
- ^ Poetry Foundation: Erika L. Sánchez. January 19, 2019, accessed January 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Erika L. Sánchez. In: Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. Retrieved January 19, 2019 (American English).
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| SURNAME | Sánchez, Erika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |