Sandra Cisneros is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet who was born on December 20, 1954. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and alternated childhood experiences between here and Mexico with her six other brothers. Throughout high school she wrote poetry and was the literary magazine editor. This made her realize that she had an outlet in writing.
Cisneros received her BA in English from Loyda University of Chicago in 1976 and her master’s at the University of Iowa. These frustrations she encountered at the writers’ workshop had “inspired her realization that her experiences as a Latin woman were unique and outside the realm of dominant American culture” which made her writing shaped on her personal experiences, making her stories about real people.
Before becoming one of the first Hispanic- American writers who achieved commercial success, Cisneros taught and was a guess professor at many universities. Also, she was a member of a Women’s Peace Group.
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