The coming-of-age story follows the journey of Julia Reyes, a witty bicultural and bilingual teenager who must navigate the sudden death of her only sister while dealing with the pressures of growing up. Just a few months later, she was named a 2017-19 Princeton Arts Fellow-an award you can only apply for twice in a lifetime, and that is presented to artists who show “extraordinary promise.” And this week, Sánchez’s exceptional YA novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, became available worldwide. Earlier this summer, her first collection of poetry, Lessons on Expulsion, debuted to glowing reviews from The New York Times Book Review. Sánchez has spent this year unequivocally killing it. Now two decades later, her dreams are finally being realized. It made me feel happy and fulfilled, so that’s where I began.” She knew exactly then that she was a poet. “I started to experiment and write,” she says. I became obsessed with books and it became my whole world.”īy sixth grade, a lesson on Edgar Allen Poe inspired Sánchez to create her own work. I had an older brother but he didn’t really hang out with me because he was five years older, so I just did a lot of reading. “My parents were factory workers and I spent a lot of time alone because they were really busy working. “ very working class, Mexican neighborhood,” says Sánchez. Sánchez was born with a pen in her hand on the outskirts of Chicago in Cicero, Illinois.
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