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Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez was born in 1934 as Wisonia Benia Driver in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended Tuggle Elementary School before moving to New York City. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Hunter College in 1955.

Sanchez created the first academic course on black women and literature. She has taught at San Francisco State College, Pitt, Rutgers, Ameherst, Penn, and Temple University.

Sanchez's awards include the 1969 P.E.N. Writing Award for her early poems,  the National Academy and Arts Award and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in 1978-1979, the American Book Award for Homegirls and Handgrenades. the Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, the Lucretia Mott Award, the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Humanities, and the Peace and Freedom Award from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. (Bhamwiki.com)

Bibliography:

Poetry

Home Coming
We a BaddDDD People
It's a New Day (poems for young brothas and sistuhs )
 Love Poems
 A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman
 I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
 Autumn Blues Continuous Fire: A Collection of Poetry
Homegirls and Handgrenades
Under a Soprano Sky
Wounded in the House of a Friend
Does Your House have Lions
Like the Singing Coming Off of Drums: Love Poems
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
Ash
 Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam

Plays

The Bronx is Next
Sista Son/Ji
Dirty Hearts
Malcolm Man/Don't Live Here No More
Uh Huh, but How do it Free Us?
I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't
Black Cats and Uneasy Landings

Children's Books

The Adventures of Fathead, Smallhead, and Squarehead
It's a New Day
A Sound Investment

Anthologies

Shake Down Memory: A Collection of Political Essays and Speeches
We Be Word Sorcerors
360 Degrees of Blackness Coming at Ya!

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