This book won the PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction of l99l, the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award.

In 1991, Cisneros published a collection of short stories called Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. She published her first full-length poetry book called My Wicked Wicked Ways in 1987. Cisneros kept writing poems, short stories, and novels in both Spanish and English. Just a year after it was published, The House on Mango Street won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. This book would go on to become one of her most famous writings. Four years later, she published a fiction novel called The House on Mango Street in 1984. The first book Cisneros published was a short book of poetry called Bad Boys in 1980. Later on, she worked at many universities including California State University at Chico, the University of California Berkeley, the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and the University of New Mexico. A few years later, Cisneros returned to Loyola University of Chicago as an administrative assistant. She became a teacher and counselor at the Latino Youth Alternative High School, where she taught students that dropped out of school. After Cisneros graduated with her second degree, she returned to Chicago. Cisneros continued on to the University of Iowa where she graduated in 1978 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. She graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. In her third year of school she took a creative writing class and decided to continue studying writing. While in school, she was an active writer and was known as “the poet.” After high school, Cisneros attended Loyola University of Chicago. However, she did not write any more poetry until she was in high school. When Cisneros was ten years old, she wrote her first poem. A year after she was born, her parents had another daughter, but she died as a baby. They had seven children, but Cisneros was the only girl. Although her parents met in Chicago, they were both from Mexico. Sandra Cisneros was born on Decemin Chicago, Illinois. Her book called The House on Mango Street, has sold over six million copies and has been translated into over twenty languages. On September 22, 2016, President Barack Obama presented Cisneros with the National Medal of Arts for her work.

Sandra Cisneros has won multiple awards, fellowships, and honors as an internationally recognized writer.

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