Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her
acclaimed 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 and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros attributes
to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that
endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous
awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded
as a key figure in Chicana literature. |