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For some writers, writing is just part of the day job. But for Sandra Cisneros, the internationally celebrated author of House on Mango Street and Martita, I Remember You, writing is a matter of ...
What sets poet Sandra Cisneros apart is how she writes with biting honesty about her life. Reset learns about her latest book Woman Without Shame and how it illustrates how she’s found beauty in ...
Cisneros is deeply spiritual, and she believes her loved ones are still with her, even if not physically. But what has really gotten her through her most desperate times is her writing.
When Sandra Cisneros talked about romance, writing, and faith over Zoom from her bright home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, she discussed her own poetry but also referred to Peanuts. In the ...
Cisneros is currently on a book tour for her new poetry collection "Woman Without Shame," (Knopf, 176 pp., out now), and as the esteemed Mexican American author writes in the opening poem: She's a ...
Sandra Cisneros, Joy Harjo, and Juan Felipe Herrera spoke at the University of Iowa on Sept. 27. All three panelists graduated from the Writers’ Workshop, and Cisneros and Harjo were in the program at ...
Sandra Cisneros Writes To Live “The publishing industry wants you to write a novel, but they don’t realize writing a novel is voluntarily going to prison.” ...
SANDRA CISNEROS: Yeah. You know, I didn't think I was going to be writing a history book, I thought I was writing a story about my father, based on my father's life.
Books Sandra Cisneros on Bad First Drafts, Staying Hopeful, and Her New Novella The former San Antonian started writing the story that became Martita, I Remember You thirty years ago.
Sandra Cisneros, at 66, firmly ensconced on Chicago’s literary Mount Rushmore, hasn’t lived in Chicago in ages. Not since she made a young, bold splash. If that doesn’t make you f… ...
For Sandra Cisneros, writing a poem is like driving in the dark The Chicago-born author, who won acclaim for her 1984 novel “The House On Mango Street,” recently had her first collection of ...