SANCHEZ, Sonia

SANCHEZ, Sonia. American, b. 1934. Genres: Children's fiction, Plays/ Screenplays, Poetry, Young adult fiction. Career: Professor of English, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1979- (Associate Professor, 1977-79; Faculty Fellow, Provost's Office, 1986-87; Presidential Fellow, 1987-88). Staff member, Downtown Community School, 1965-67, and Mission Rebels in Action, 1968-69, San Francisco, California; Instructor, San Francisco State College, 1967-69; Lecturer in Black Literature, University of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1969-70, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1970-71, Manhattan Community College, NYC, 1971-73; Associate Professor, Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1972-75, and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1976-77. Publications: Homecoming, 1969; WE a BaddDDD People, 1970; Broadside No. 34, 1970; The Bronx Is Next, 1970; It's a New Day; Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs, 1971; Sister Son/ji, 1971; Dirty Hearts '72, 1971; (ed.) Three Hundred Sixty Degrees of Blackness Comin' at You, 1972; Love Poems, 1973; A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women, 1973; The Adventures of Fat Head, Smallhead, and Squarehead (juvenile), 1973; Sound Investment (short stories), 1979; I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1979; Homegirls and Handgrenades, 1984; Under a Soprano Sky, 1987; Wounded in the House of a Friend, 1995; Does Your House Have Lions?, 1997; Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, 1998; Shake Loose My Skin (poems), 1999. Address: Dept. of English, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, U.S.A.