<P> Erika L. Sánchez is a poet and writer . 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 . </P> <P> Sánchez, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, is from Cicero, Illinois . She attended the University of Illinois at Chicago as an undergraduate, then earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of New Mexico . </P>

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