BOOKS:· “A House of My Own: Stories from My Life”· “The House on Mango Street” -- Celebrating 26th Anniversary!-- Her Works Have Been Translated Into 20 Languages --

AWARDS:· National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships· Lannan Literary Award· The American Book Award· A MacArthur Fellowship

PRESS QUOTES:Boston Globe -- “Cisneros is the impassioned bard of the Mexican border.”

New York Times Review of Books -- “Cisneros draws on her rich Latino heritage…and seduces with precise, spare prose, creating unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.”

The Library Journal – Re: “A House of My Own”Sandra Cisneros "has written what may well be the best memoir of the year thus far."