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"America Ferrera sets feature film directorial debut with Netflix's 'I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter' ". "Chicagoan Erika Sanchez: From daughter of undocumented immigrants to National Book Award finalist".

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As of 2020, she serves as writer-in-residence at DePaul University, teaching English and writing. Teaching įrom 2017 to 2019, Sánchez was an arts fellow at Princeton University, teaching poetry and fiction writing. In 2022, her memoir Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir was published.įor three years, Sánchez also served as the sex and love advice columnist for Cosmopolitan for Latinas. In 2021, it was announced that America Ferrera will direct a film adaptation of the novel for Netflix, with a script by Linda Yvette Chávez.

Bustle named the book to a list of the best 15 young adult books appearing in October 2017 and it was a finalist for the National Book Award for young people's literature. It follows 15-year-old Julia Reyes who first struggles to live up to the rule-following example set by her sister Olga, then begins to learn things were not as they seemed when Olga dies unexpectedly. Sánchez's first young adult novel was I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. Smith recommended Sánchez as among the best new voices in poetry. In The New York Times, Kathleen Rooney praised Sánchez's "wrenching explorations of guilt and shame, grief and misogyny.Her depictions of misery hurt and haunt," particularly through her use of the second person "to draw readers close to difficult subjects." In 2017, United States poet laureate Tracy K. The Washington Post named it to a list of best poetry of July 2017, calling it a "fierce, assertive debut". Her first poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion, was published by Graywolf in July 2017. Sánchez won a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship in 2015. She then earned an MFA in poetry from the University of New Mexico. After college she traveled to Madrid, Spain, to teach English with the Fulbright program and pursued poetry. She attended Morton East High School, then the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. She grew up bilingual, speaking both Spanish and English.

Sánchez, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, is from Cicero, Illinois. She was a professor at DePaul University. She is the author of poetry collection Lessons on Expulsion and a young adult novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Finalist, National Book Award for Young People's Literature winner, Tomás Rivera AwardĮrika L.