Additionally, Cisneros is actively collaborating with composer Derek Bermel in the creation of The House on Mango Street, The Opera, which has already held previews at Yale University and the Chautauqua Institution. The fiction novel won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1985 and has since sold over six million copies worldwide. Four years later, her most famous novel called The House on Mango Street was published. The poems incorporate themes of domestic struggles and abuse. Her first book entitled Bad Boys was published in 1980 and is a short collection of poems told through the lens of various Latinx characters. She has also worked as a visiting writer and arts administrator at universities including Loyola University of Chicago, the University of California–Berkeley, and the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. Upon her graduation from the University of Iowa, she moved back to Chicago to teach and counsel students at the Latino Youth Alternative High School. in Creative Writing.Ĭisneros has also worked as an educator. She completed graduate studies at the University of Iowa in 1978 with an M.F.A. Following her graduation, she attended Loyola University of Chicago and graduated in 1976 with a B.A. During her high school years, she was known amongst her colleagues as an active writer and poet. The only daughter of seven children, Cisneros began writing poetry at 10 years old.
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to Mexican parents.
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