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Sandra Cisneros
American writer (born )
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, ) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (), and her subsequent short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories ().
Her work experiments with literary forms that investigate emerging subject positions, which Cisneros, herself, attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell.[1] She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, was awarded one of 25 new Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowships in , and is regarded as a key figure in Chicano literature.[2]
Cisneros' early life provided many experiences that she later drew on, as a writer: she grew up as the only daughter in a family of six brothers, which often made her feel isolated, and the constant migration of her family, between Mexico