She was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and grew up in San Francisco’s Mission District. Since 1980 she has worked as an educator and activist in the Santa Cruz Latino community. At the time of publication, she taught in the Spanish for Spanish Speakers Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work is included in the anthology, New Chicana/Chicano Writing, published in 1992 by the University of Arizona Press. She is also founding co-editor of Revista Mujeres, a bilingual publication for and by Chicanas and Latinas. Sánchez’s contribution to the definition of the Chicana experience is essential. Her voice emerges from a strong and proud tradition into a thriving Latino literary community.