# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonia-sanchez-q3307926
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:07:27.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonia-sanchez-q3307926"
name: "Sonia Sanchez"
slug: "sonia-sanchez-q3307926"
description: "Sonia Sanchez is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books. In the 1960s, Sanchez released poems in periodicals targeted towards African-American audiences, and published her debut collection, Homecoming, in 1969. In 1993, she received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and in 2001 was awarded the Robert Frost Medal for her contributions to the canon of American poetry. She has been influential to other African-American poets, including Krista Franklin. Sanchez is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective."
tagline: "American poet, playwright and activist"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1934-09-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump