SANDRA CISNEROS was born in Chicago in 1954. She is the author of two novels, the internationally acclaimed The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, awarded the Premio Napoli, nominated for the Orange Prize, and shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Her awards include National Endowment for the Arts fellowships for both fiction and poetry, the Lannan Literary Award, the American Book Award, the Texas Medal of the Arts, the Thomas Wolfe Prize, and a MacArthur fellowship.
Other books include Have You Seen Marie?; the story collection Woman Hollering Creek; two books of poetry, My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman; and two books of children’s literature. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
Cisneros is the founder of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral and Macondo Foundations, which serve creative writers. She lives in Mexico.
Find her online at www.sandracisneros.com.