Sanchez published poetry and essays in numerous periodicals in the 1960s, including The Liberator, Negro Digest, and Black Dialogue.
In 2018, she won the Wallace Stevens Award from the for proven mastery in the art of poetry.
She began writing plays while in San Francisco in the 1960s.
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Several of her plays challenge the masculinist spirit of the movement, focusing on strong female protagonists.
She has been influential to other African-American poets, including.