Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) is a poet, playwright, educator, activist, and one of the founders of the Black Arts movement. She is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Does Your House Have Lions? which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Homegirls & Handgrenades, which won an American Book Award. Her other accolades include the Robert Creeley Award, the Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the prestigious Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement award. She lives in Philadelphia.
