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Erika L. Sánchez is the author of Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf Press, 2017) and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017), which was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature. She earned an MFA from the University of New Mexico and has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a CantoMundo Fellowship, the 2013 “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize, the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and a 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Princeton Arts Fellow and lives in Chicago, Illinois.
The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for...
Prageeta Sharma is the author of Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013); Infamous...
Stanley Miller Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, on April 8, 1930. Williams first attended...
Poet and teacher Diana Goetsch is author of the poetry collections The Job of Being...
The author of numerous collections of poetry, Adrienne Rich wrote poems examining such things as...