Sandra Cisneros is best known for her debut novel, The House on Mango Street, which follows a year in the life of a young Chincana girl.For the 40th anniversary of that book, Sandra joined Rachel ...

LOS ANGELES – Draped in her signature shawl, Sandra Cisneros stood ... self-love and her life in Mexico with evocative imagery. Cisneros, who has never married nor had children, details in ...

Sandra Cisneros’ groundbreaking novel introduces ... surroundings and the strength and vulnerability of the women in her life, she begins to forge a dream of one day leaving Mango Street.

“A poem is never done,” the writer Sandra Cisneros told me in July ... Without Shame,” whose poems capture her solitude, erotic longings, and life in Mexico with rich language and sharp ...

Sandra Cisneros, photo courtesy of Keith Dannemiller Rivera, who in her own debut novel ... we always imagined what our life would be like if we lived in 'the city.' I was obviously aware of ...

This year is the 40th anniversary of the publication of Sandra Cisneros ... observing her family and community as she decides who she wants to be. Cisneros was only 21 when she started writing ...

Before I join the Zoom with Sandra Cisneros, I hyperventilate for some seconds. You would think that since my own debut novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, was published in 2018 with her words of ...

Jeanine Cummins’s “Speak to Me of Home” is a saga about three generations of women inspired by her Puerto Rican grandmother’s ...

Sandra Cisneros is a legend in Chicanx literature ... Throughout the collection, Cisneros writes openly about her sex life, destigmatizing female desire and finding love in one’s old age.

This little poem never fails to make me smile--it leads off Sandra Cisneros's 1994 volume of poems, Loose Woman, and is a lightly irreverent, highly rhetorical declaration, a rococo piece of work ...

Sandra Cisneros’ groundbreaking novel introduces ... surroundings and the strength and vulnerability of the women in her life, she begins to forge a dream of one day leaving Mango Street.