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Interviews with Sandra Cisneros

• Sandra Cisneros Crosses Borders And Boundaries In 'A House Of My Own' NPR interviewed Sandra Cisneros on October 6, 2015 about her life, her work, and her new autobiography, "A House of My Own."
• 'House On Mango Street' Celebrates 25 Years- NPR Interview A 25th anniversary edition of The House on Mango Street has just been published. Renee Montagne speaks with author Sandra Cisneros about the story of a Mexican-American girl growing up in Chicago. The novel is required reading for many middle and high school students across the country.
• PALABRAS: Sandra Cisneros, Author of 'The House on Mango Street,' Talks Libraries, Love, Photography, Spirituality, and Tattoos In this edition of Latin Post's "Palabras" series, the brilliant Sandra Cisneros discusses her personal journey as a writer, reader and an individual. (Photo : "The House on Mango Street" & "Caramelo" -Sandra Cisneros; "Boots" - Eric Gay/AP File Photo; "Budalupe Tattoo" - Hispanic Magazine)
• New And Established Writers Redefine Chicano Lit- NPR Interview Many Mexican-American writers use their work to share stories of history, identity and discrimination. Sanda Cisneros, author of The House On Mango Street, and young adult literature author David Rice explain what their stories can tell readers about Chicano life in America.
• Intersections: When Languages Collide- NPR Interview Cisneros grew up in a multilingual home: She spoke to her mother in English and her father in Spanish. When she was a little girl she didn't realize they were two separate languages. To her ears, all the sounds meshed together. What mattered was where the words took her. For Intersections, a series on artists' influences, Cisneros talks with NPR's Felix Contreras about how the collision of languages helped shape her voice as a writer.

Sandra Cisneros - Early Life

Voices from the Gaps

Mathias, Kelly; Curtright, Lauren. (1996). Sandra Cisneros. Voices from the Gaps. Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/166122.

The full essay is available by clicking the link below.

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Biography of Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954, the only daughter in a family of seven children. The Cisneros family traveled frequently between Chicago and Mexico to visit relatives, often settling in a different home upon each return. The family resided for the majority of Sandra’s youth in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

Growing up in a home where library cards were mandatory, Sandra retreated into books and began to express herself in poetry. It was in high school, at St. Josephinum in Chicago, that Cisneros first found an outlet and discovered acceptance for her creativity. Encouraged by a teacher, Cisneros wrote poetry and became willing to share her work with her young peers. She worked on a high school literary magazine, eventually becoming editor. Cisneros went on to study English at Loyola University of Chicago, and in 1978 received her M.F.A. in creative writing from the renowned University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Upon graduating from the Writers’ Workshop, Cisneros returned to Chicago and took a job teaching at the Latino Youth Alternative High School, a facility for high school dropouts. In her free time she wrote and submitted poems to literary journals with some success. She read her poems to club and coffee shop audiences, gradually earning a local reputation.

In 1982, Cisneros received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. With the award money she went to Europe, where she wrote The House on Mango Street. Drawing on the rootlessness of her childhood, the book created a vibrant picture of one girl’s idealization of “home.” (The house from the title is a composite of the author’s many homes, but is placed on a street, Mango Street, where the Cisneros family never actually lived.) Published in 1984, the book gained international acclaim, winning Cisneros the American Book Award. Today, The House on Mango Street is required reading in schools throughout the United States.

To read her full biography, click HERE.

https://www.chipublib.org/sandra-cisneros-biography/

Sandra Cisneros - Community Activism

Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home

Writer Sandra Cisneros has spent her entire life searching for a sense of belonging, a search chronicled in a new essay collection, “A House of My Own: Stories From My Life.” She sits down with Jeffrey Brown at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington to discuss her book, her life as a writer and her journey to find home.

View the Full Story/Transcript: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/sandra...

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