Sandra Cisneros
Author of The House on Mango Street
About the Author
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 20, 1954. She received a B.A. in English from Loyola University of Chicago in 1976 and a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa in 1978. She has worked as a college recruiter, an arts administrator, a teacher to high school show more dropouts, and a poet. She has also visited numerous colleges around the country as a visiting writer. She has written numerous books including The House on Mango Street, Caramelo, Loose Woman, Have You Seen Marie?, and A House of My Own: Stories from My Life. She has received numerous awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Lannan Literary Award, the American Book Award, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Sandra Cisneros
Eleven 5 copies
Huizache 4 4 copies
Eleven and Papa who wakes up tired in the dark: Two short stories by Sandra Cisneros (2013) 2 copies
Barbie-Q 2 copies
Mericans [short story] 1 copy
Cisneros, Sandra Archive 1 copy
Cisneros Sandra 1 copy
Machu Picchu 1 copy
Mango Sokagi'ndaki Ev 1 copy
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contributor — 504 copies
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 345 copies
Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students (Teaching for Social Justice Series) (1994) — Foreword — 170 copies
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributor — 121 copies
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Contributor — 102 copies
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Contributor — 69 copies
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contributor — 63 copies
Daughters of the Fifth Sun: A Collection of Latina Fiction and Poetry (1995) — Contributor — 52 copies
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contributor — 47 copies
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Contributor — 39 copies
Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (Southwestern Writers Collection) (2006) — Contributor — 27 copies
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Contributor — 19 copies
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Contributor — 14 copies
Discovering Fiction Level 2 Student's Book: A Reader of North American Short Stories (2012) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Canonical name
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Birthdate
- 1954-12-20
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Places of residence
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico - Education
- Loyola University Chicago (BA|1976)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA|1978) - Occupations
- poet
short-story writer
teacher
college recruiter
arts administrator - Organizations
- Macondo Writers Workshop
Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation - Awards and honors
- MacArthur Fellowship (1995)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2003)
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2022)
Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award (2023)
National Medal of Arts (2015)
PEN/Nabokov Award (2019) (show all 11)
Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1991)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1993)
American Book Award (1985)
Premio Napoli Award (2005)
Fuller Award (2021) - Agent
- Susan Bergholz Literary Services
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- Works
- 29
- Also by
- 51
- Members
- 16,001
- Popularity
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- Rating
- 3.7
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- 360
- ISBNs
- 187
- Languages
- 12
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