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Erika L. Sánchez

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Erika L. Sánchez is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her debut poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion, was published by Graywolf in July 2017, and was a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. Her debut young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, published in October 2017 by Knopf Books for Young Readers, was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Awards finalist. It is now is being made into a film directed by America Ferrera. Sanchez was a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow, a 2018 recipient of the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, and a 2019 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Erika L. Sánchez Books

Crying in the Bathroom book cover

Crying in the Bathroom

Erika L. Sánchez
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter book cover

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

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Lessons on Expulsion book cover

Lessons on Expulsion

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