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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Erika L. Sánchez
Description: Poet, novelist and essayist Erika L. Sánchez may have been a National Book Award Finalist, a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow,  a 2019 NEA Literature Fellow and currently the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Chair in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at DePaul University, but she takes nothing for granted. Growing up in Chicago the child of Mexican immigrant factory workers, she understood early on that not everyone was able to realize their lives’ goals. Erika, often feeling like the odd kid out, found new worlds through books and herself through writing.  And she was determined to make...