Sandra Cisneros, author portrait
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Sandra Cisneros

SANDRA CISNEROS is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, national and international book awards, including the PEN America Literary Award, and the National Medal of Arts. More recently, she received the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized with the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. As a single woman she made the choice to have books instead of children. A citizen of both the United States and Mexico, Cisneros currently lives in San Miguel de Allende and makes her living by her pen.
The House on Mango Street
Woman Without Shame
Mujer sin vergüenza
La Casa en Mango Street
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
A House of My Own
My Wicked Wicked Ways
Have You Seen Marie?
Loose Woman and Woman Hollering Creek
Vintage Cisneros
Caramelo
Hairs/Pelitos
Loose Woman
Woman Hollering Creek
The House on Mango Street

Books

The House on Mango Street
Woman Without Shame
Mujer sin vergüenza
La Casa en Mango Street
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
A House of My Own
My Wicked Wicked Ways
Have You Seen Marie?
Loose Woman and Woman Hollering Creek
Vintage Cisneros
Caramelo
Hairs/Pelitos
Loose Woman
Woman Hollering Creek
The House on Mango Street

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