What is the background of Sandra Cisneros ?

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I want to know her life from begining to end not really detailed but 4-5 paragraphs will do.

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Here's her official website:
http://www.sandracisneros.com/html/about/bio.html

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Sandra Cisneros Background

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Sandra Cisneros biographical note

I was born in Chicago in l954, the third child and only daughter in a family of seven children. I studied at Loyola University of Chicago (B.A. English 1976) and the University of Iowa (M.F.A. Creative Writing 1978). My books include a chapbook of poetry, Bad Boys (Mango Press 1980); two full-length poetry books, My Wicked Wicked Ways (Third Woman 1987, Random House 1992) and Loose Woman(Alfred A. Knopf 1994); a collection of stories, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Random House l991); a children's book, Hairs/Pelitos (Alfred A. Knopf 1994); and two novels, The House on Mango Street (Vintage 1991) and Caramelo (Knopf 2002).

Caramelo was selected as notable book of the year by several journals including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and the Seattle Times. It was also nominated for the Orange Prize in England. My novels have been selected for One City/One Book projects in numerous communities including Los Angeles, Miami, Fort Worth, El Paso, and Milwaukee. House on Mango Street has sold over two million copies and is required reading in classrooms across the country, including elementary, middle, high school, and university-level.

Woman Hollering Creek was awarded 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. It was also selected as a noteworthy book of the year by The New York Times and the American Library Journal, and nominated Best Book of Fiction for l99l by the Los Angeles Times.

Loose Woman won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association's 1995 Regional Book Award in the poetry category.

Other awards include the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 1995; a Texas Medal of the Arts Award, 2003; an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Loyola University, Chicago, 2002; an honorary Doctor of Letters from the State University of New York at Purchase, l993; two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships for fiction and poetry, l988, l982; the Roberta Holloway Lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley, l988; the Chicano Short Story Award from the University of Arizona, l986; the Before Columbus American Book Award, l985; the Texas Institute of Letters Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, l984; and an Illinois Artists Grant, l984.

My books have been translated into over a dozen languages, including Spanish, Galician, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, and, most recently, into Greek, Thai, and Serbo-Croatian.

In the past I worked as a teacher and counselor to high-school dropouts, as an artist-in-the schools where I taught creative writing at every level except first grade and pre-school, a college recruiter, an arts administrator, and as a visiting writer at a number of universities including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

I currently earn my living by my pen. I live in San Antonio, Texas, in a violet house filled with many creatures, little and large.

See also:
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cisneros/bio.htm

Sandra Cisneros
1954-

Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Genre(s): Poetry; Essays
Award(s):
National Endowment for the Arts fellow, 1982, 1988 American Book Award from Before Columbus Foundation, 1985, for The House on Mango Street
Paisano Dobie Fellowship, 1986 First and second prize in Segundo Concurso Nacional del Cuento Chicano, sponsored by University of Arizona Lannan Foundation Literary Award, 1991
HD.L, State University of New York at Purchase, 1993 MacArthur fellow, 1995

Born December 20, 1954, Chicago IL.
Education:
Loyola University, B.A., 1976;
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, M.F.A., 1978.
Memberships:
PEN, Mujeres por la paz (member and organizer; a women's peace group).
Career:
Writer.
Latino Youth Alternative High School, Chicago IL, teacher, 1978-80; Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, college recruiter and counselor for minority students, 1981-82;
Foundation Michael Karolyi, Vence, France, artist in residence, 1983; Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX, literature director, 1984-85;
Guest professor, California State University, Chico, 1987-88, University of California, Berkeley, 1988, University of California, Irvine, 1990, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1990, and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1991.

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
Bad Boys (poems), Mango Publications, 1980.
The House on Mango Street, Arte Publico, 1984. My Wicked, Wicked Ways, (poems), Third Woman Press, 1987.
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, (stories), Random House, 1991.
Hairs: Pelitos (juvenile; bilingual), illustrated by Terry Ybanez, Knopf, 1994.
Loose Woman (poems), Knopf,1994.
Contributor to various periodicals, including Imagine, Contact II, Glamour, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice and Revista Chicano-Riquena. "Sidelights"

With only a handful of poetry and short story collections, Sandra Cisneros has garnered wide critical acclaim as well as popular success. Drawing heavily upon her childhood experiences and ethnic heritage as the daughter of a Mexican father and Chicana mother, Cisneros addresses poverty, cultural suppression, self-identity, and gender roles in her fiction and poetry. She creates characters who are distinctly Latina/o and often isolated from mainstream American culture by emphasizing dialogue and sensory imagery over traditional narrative structures. Best known for The House on Mango Street, a volume of loosely structured vignettes that has been classified as both a short story collection and a series of prose poems, Cisneros seeks to create an idiom that integrates both prosaic and poetic syntax.

"Cisneros is a quintessentially American writer, unafraid of the sentimental; avoiding the clichés of magical realism, her work bridges the gap between Anglo and Hispanic, " remarked Aamer Hussein in the Times Literary Supplement. Born in Chicago, Cisneros was the only daughter among seven children. Concerning her childhood, Cisneros recalled that because her brothers attempted to control her and expected her to assume a traditional female role, she often felt like she had "seven fathers." The family frequently moved between the United States and Mexico because of her father's homesickness for his native country and his devotion to his mother who lived there. Consequently, Cisneros often felt homeless and displaced. She began to read extensively, finding comfort in such works as Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Cisneros periodically wrote poems and stories throughout her childhood and adolescence, but it was not until she attended the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop in the late 1970s that she realized her experiences as a Latina woman were unique and outside the realm of dominant American culture. Following this realization, Cisneros decided to write about conflicts directly related to her upbringing, including divided cultural loyalties, feelings of alienation, and degradation associated with poverty. Incorporating these concerns into The House on Mango Street, a work that took nearly five years to complete, Cisneros created the character Esperanza, a poor Latina adolescent who longs for a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud. Esperanza ponders the disadvantages of choosing marriage over education, the importance of writing as an emotional release, and the sense of confusion associated with growing up. In the story "Hips, " for example, Esperanza agonizes over the repercussions of her body's physical changes: "One day you wake up and there they are. Ready and waiting like a new Buick with the key in the ignition. Ready to take you where?