索妮亚·桑切斯(Sonia San-chez),原名威尔索妮亚·博妮塔·德赖弗,是当代美国最杰出的女诗人之一。1934年,她出生于阿拉巴马州的伯明翰。在她一岁的时候,母亲去世了;九岁时,桑切斯随再婚的父亲一同迁往纽约的哈莱姆,并一直在那里接受教育。1955年,她从亨特学院毕业之后,又到纽约大学,师从路易斯·博根,进行诗歌研究和创作。自上世纪60年代末以来,桑切斯先后创作了十九部诗集和戏剧,她的作品——特别是诗歌,赢得了读者和评论界的一致好评,并获得了美国图书奖、弗罗斯特诗歌奖等文学大奖。在创作的同时,她先后在宾夕法尼亚大学、加利福 Sonia San-chez, formerly known as Will Sonia Sanita, is one of the most prominent women poets in the United States. In 1934, she was born in Birmingham, Alabama. At the age of one, her mother died; at the age of nine, Sanchez relocated to Haarlem, New York with the remarried father, and was educated there. After graduating from Hunter College in 1955, she went to New York University where she studied with Louis Bogen and studied poetry. Since the late 1960s, Sanchez has produced 19 collections of poetry and drama. Her works - especially poetry - have won praise from readers and commentators and won the American Book Award, Frost Poetry Award Other literary awards. At the same time as her creation, she worked at the University of Pennsylvania, Calif