Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican father and a Mexican American mother, the only daughter in a family with six sons. She was raised in Chicago, but often visited Mexico. She began writing at the age of ten, and as a young woman studied creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she earned an M.F.A. in 1978. In addition to writing both poetry and fiction, Cisneros has taught creative writing in a variety of educational contexts, including high school and college. Cisneros’s work often explores her cultural identity and resonates with sexual and social significance.
Major works by Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street (1983, stories)
My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1987, poems)
Women Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991)
Loose Woman: Poems (1994)
Caramelo (2002, novel)
Sandra Cisneros and the Web
This page at Voices From the Gaps has an excerpt from The House on Mango Street, a bio, bibliographies, links, and some photos.
Would you like to read more by this author? Here’s a page with two poems by Cisneros in etext.
Here is Sandra Cisneros’s own official web site, which includes a biography, reviews and articles, and information on all her books.