Erika L. Sánchez

Poems that appear in Poetry December 2015

To cease to exist

and to die

are two different things entirely.


Six Months after Contemplating Suicide


Kingdom of Debt


Erika L. Sánchez is a CantoMundo Fellow and winner of the 2013 “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize. She has received scholarships from the Fulbright Program and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her poetry has appeared in Boston Review, diode, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, Pleiades, Poetry, “Latino USA” on NPR, and the anthology Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation (2015). Her nonfiction has been published in Al Jazeera, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, NBC News, Rolling Stone, Salon, and many others. Sánchez lives in Chicago.

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