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	Sandra Cisneros
		Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois.
		Cisneros' voice -- that of a "working-class, Mexican-American woman with an independent sexuality" (Juffer) -- is shaped by her experiences growing up in a part of America that many other authors are not familiar with.
		Cisneros calls the novels narrator, Esperanza, an "anti-academic voice—a child's voice, a girl's voice, a poor girl's voice, a spoken voice, the voice of an American-Mexican" (Juffer).
	www.bsu.edu /web/gstrecker/PoetryProject/sandracisneros.htm (973 words)

	Sandra Cisneros
		Cisneros still harbored the idea of becoming a writer and, because her father did not pressure her about career objectives as he did her brothers, she was able to major in English.
		The discovery of the fundamental differences between Cisneros and her classmates and the subsequent awareness that she had no equals in the program was a revelation for the author.
		Cisneros concluded in her interview with AAYA: "I expect myself as a writer, coming into this community, to write about it, because it is the way in which I can do something to make change in the world.
	www.princeton.edu /~howarth/557/house_bio.html (5330 words)

	Sandra Cisneros - MSN Encarta
		Sandra Cisneros, born in 1954, American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet, whose works helped bring the perspective of Chicana (Mexican American) women into the literary mainstream.
		Sandra Cisneros was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, in a family of seven children.
		Cisneros then taught creative writing in a number of Chicago primary and secondary schools.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580425/Sandra_Cisneros.html (382 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Sandra Cisneros
		Cisneros received her B.A. from Loyola University in 1976 and her M.F.A from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1978.
		Cisneros had periodically written poems and stories while growing up, but it was the frustrations she encountered at the Writer's Workshop that inspired Cisneros' realization that her experiences as a Latina woman were unique and outside the realm of dominant American culture.
		Cisneros was the only daughter among seven children, and her brothers attempts to make her assume a traditional female role is reflected in the feminist strains of her writing, glorifying heroines who dream of economic independence and celebrating the "wicked" sexuality of women.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_sandra_cisneros.html (690 words)

	Sandra Cisneros' Career
		Cisneros' alienation gave rise to anger, which in turn prompted the writing of House on Mango Street; the lyrical novel describing the life of a young Mexican-American girl growing up in a working-class Chicago neighborhood, much as Cisneros herself did.
		Cisneros has in many ways become the representative Chicana in the reconstruction of the canon, yet much of her work has been elided in the focus on House and the youth stories in WHC.
		Cisneros' non-academic reception has often been more comprehensive in its treatment of her work than the academic reception; specifically, non-academic reviews have been more likely to embrace her "bad girl" politics than academic critiques.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/cisneros/career.htm (1010 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation: Sandra Cisneros -- October 15, 2002
		SANDRA CISNEROS: Well, it depends on how many car stops you have to make, and whether your father is willing to drive all night or pay the extra money to stay in motels; that really depends on how many drivers you have.
		SANDRA CISNEROS: Ray, you can be Buddhaloupist, as I am, you see, where you're a devotee of Guadeloupe and Buddhism, and that's the nice thing about Buddhism, it allows you to look at the jewels of your own culture and incorporate that into your Buddhism.
		SANDRA CISNEROS: Yeah, you know, I think that my father since he was a great devotee of the Famile Boron comic books in Mexico, and photonovelas and telenovelas -- my mom was a devotee of great literature, so I had high and low in English and Spanish.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/conversation/july-dec02/cisneros_10-15.html (1356 words)

	Sandra Cisneros
		Cisneros then realized that she needed to write what she knew, and adopted a writing style that was purposely opposite that of her classmates.
		Cisneros' work explores issues that are important to her: feminism, love, oppression, and religion.
		Cisneros could be considered a fresh new voice in Chicana literature.
	www.edwardsly.com /cisneros.html (722 words)

	Las Mujeres :: Sandra Cisneros
		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.
		"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.
		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.
	www.lasmujeres.com /sandracisneros/cisnerosbio.shtml (574 words)

	Sandra Cisneros: Contemporary Liberator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954 in Chicago.
		Cisneros is one of many trying to use her power, however small or large it might be to help the people who are growing up in similar situations.
		This was a hard decision for me to make, Sandra Cisneros isn’t an artist in the common sense; she is an author, a story teller, a poet.
	www.geocities.com /themoose117/Project5ABC.html (1195 words)

	Sandra Cisneros
		Sandra Cisneros is not a native of San Antonio, but she has lived here for the past several years, after having spent the earlier part of her life in Chicago (her childhood home) and other places in the Midwest and West, punctuated by periodic visits to Mexico.
		While Sandra Cisneros is not the only gifted creative writer living in San Antonio at the present, she has received the most attention, especially from publishers of literary texts.
		The autobiographical implications here are obvious in view of the fact that, in 1997, Cisneros had her modest frame house on East Guenther Street painted "periwinkle purple." Her act generated a mini-firestorm in the community, because many of the residents in King William considered her contemporary color scheme inappropriate for this historic district.
	www.accd.edu /sac/english/mcquien/htmlfils/cisneros.htm (1034 words)

	Sandra Cisneros
		Cisneros is also a member of Mujeres por la Paz, a women's peace group which helps organize.
		Her brothers attempts to make her assume a traditional female role is reflected in the feminist strains of her writing, glorifying heroines who dream of economic independence and celebrating the "wicked" sexuality of women.
		Cisneros writes about her native Chicago, her travels in Europe, and, as reflected in the title, sexual guilt resulting from her strict Catholic upbringing.(Lesbian) A collection of sixty poems, each of which resemble a short story, the work exemplifies one of Cisneros' acclaimed knack for combining and crossing the boundaries of genre.
	www.unm.edu /~erbaugh/Wmst200fall03/bios/cisneros.htm (610 words)

	NPR : Intersections: When Languages Collide
		Cisneros grew up in a multilingual home: She spoke to her mother in English and her father in Spanish.
		Cisneros says that, as a child, she was uncomfortable with her Chicago neighborhood, in what she describes as a poor part of town without nature or beauty.
		Cisneros' stories -- about ethnic identity, poverty and other aspects of her bicultural world -- sprouted characters with a distinct language of their own.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1866475 (642 words)

	Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
		Cisneros is, typically, more interested in detailing the dynamics of her own community rather than representing conflicts between Anglo-Americans and Mexican-Americans.
		Often in her stories, there is a narrator or character who seems to represent Cisneros herself: a Chicana artist who has done something to scandalize her community, who exists (as it were) on the border between Mexican-American and Anglo-American cultures, and who has an uneasy relation to both.
		In order to highlight the question of class, pairing Cisneros with Tomás Rivera works well because--although Cisneros has certain stylistic affinities with Rivera--his work is more obviously compatible with the version of Chicano identity constructed by the Chicano movement.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cisnero.html (1046 words)

	Sandra Cisneros
		BYLINE: By MARY B. BODY: ON a rainy winter afternoon, the writer Sandra Cisneros stands before a ragtag group of children and adults in the tiny Brownsville branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, and with orange and fl cat-eyed glasses perched atop her head, begins her song of life in the barrio.
		Cisneros is one of only a handful of Latina writers to make it big on the American scene, along with the likes of Julia Alvarez, a Dominican-American, and Cristina Garcia, a Cuban-American.
		Cisneros says the publishing contracts have allowed her to buy a new Victorian house in San Antonio, where she has lived off and on since 1984.
	www.princeton.edu /~howarth/557/house_rev.html (1559 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About House on Mango Street
		Thus it was that The House on Mango Street was born and Cisneros discovered what she terms her "first love," a fascination with speech and voices.
		Cisneros incorporated her major concerns into the novel, as she wrote about conflicts directly related to her upbringing, including divided cultural loyalties, feelings of alienation, and degradation associated with poverty.
		Cisneros' work also explores other issues that are important to her: feminism, love, oppression, and religion.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/houseonmango/about.html (730 words)

	Sandra Cisneros Collection, 1984-2001
		Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954 and raised in Chicago.
		Sandra Cisneros is a well-recognized and influential Chicana writer who draws heavily upon her childhood experiences and ethnic heritage.
		Cisneros reflects on her decision to not marry and the reactions she has gotten from her family and friends.
	asteria.fivecolleges.edu /findaids/amherst/ma102.html (1290 words)

	AWG Sandra Cisneros
		The details of Sandra Cisneros' biography make this site relatively interesting, particularly for students doing research into her "personal life and writing style." The biography is "accurate as it pertains to her upbringing and quoted comments from interviews," but the "bias" of the website writer comes through in a few inaccurate statements about Cisneros' motivations.
		Sandra Cisneros is one of "many prominent authors" who were asked about the books that have "influenced their lives and writings." While the brief paragraph on Cisneros "offers no real insight into her writings," the collection of quotes could be used by teachers to "enhance students' interest in reading."
		Along with the biographical information is a short "analysis of characters and stories in The House on Mango Street." Although there is little teacher support nor any links, readers can "gain an understanding of how this author developed her voice," and students could use the analysis of her book as a starting point for research.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /awg_cisneros_sandra.htm (501 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - Sandra Cisneros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cisneros is determined to introduce them to American readers, and so far her efforts have been successful.
		Cisneros lives in a historic district of San Antonio, so when she painted her house a very brilliant purple in 1997, the city board objected.
		Cisneros feels it is important for people of all races in America to understand the lives of Mexican Americans, especially Mexican American women.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/chh/bio/cisneros_s.htm (1453 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Cisneros, Sandra
		Hopefully Sandra Cisneros will be able to keep on writing for many years to come.
		Sandra Cisneros's Modern Malinche: A Reconsideration of Feminine Archetypes in Woman Hollering Creek.
		Sandra Cisneros reads from The House on Mango Street, and Woman Hollering Creek, and talks about the Chicana experience in life and fiction (sound recording).
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/cisneros_sandra.html (1873 words)

	"Caramelo" by Sandra Cisneros - Salon
		Sandra Cisneros is the author of "The House on Mango Street." Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation.
		Her new novel, "Caramelo," is a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion and poignancy.
		We travel from the Mexico City that was the "Paris of the New World" to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring '20s -- and, finally, to Lala's own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas.
	dir.salon.com /story/audio/fiction/2002/12/11/cisneros/index.html (314 words)

	Sandra Cisneros - Short Stories
		Trying to escape the poverty of her youth and the loneliness of being the only girl in a family of seven siblings, she sought refuge in reading and dreaming of a nice home where life was as idyllic as that portrayed on television.
		These breaking of the yokes that bound Cisneros in her upbringing as an obedient Catholic girl resonates in her work, displaying a defiance that she had not been able to show as a child.
		In her stories, Cisneros finally found the voice that she had been searching for, a strong voice that needed to be heard and shared, and the literary world is much richer for being able to hear it.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art5443.asp (618 words)

	PAL: Sandra Cisneros (1954 - )
		Carter, Nancy C. "Claiming the Bittersweet Matrix: Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adrienne Rich." Critique 35.4 (Sumr 1994): 195-204.
		"Crossing the Borders of Genre: Revisions of the Bindungsroman in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 31.2 (Wint 1998): 63 78.
		"Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street, and the Poetics of Space." Chicana Creativity and Criticism: New Frontiers in American Literature.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/cisneros.html (833 words)

	Vintage
		Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954.
		Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation.
		Cisneros is the author of the novels The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, a collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek, a book of poetry Loose Woman, and a children's book Hairs/Pelitos.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/results.pperl?authorid=4977 (80 words)

	Sandra Cisneros
		This page contains facts on Sandra Cisneros, her background, education, awards and honors, and an essay about her life history and her purpose in her books.
		Cisneros was interviewed for the article so there is some first-hand information about her motivation in writing her stories.
		It is this complexity which offers an excellent opportunity for English teachers of the tenth asnd eleventh grades to teach the literary concepts of style and language and to allow students to discover another culture and another perspective through literature.
	www.ualr.edu /teenread/id22.htm (1200 words)

	Fiction: Sandra Cisneros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		From Voices From the Gaps, an instructional site from the University of Minnesota focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color, the page on Cisneros includes a brief biography, a useful bibliography, and a list of links to other related sites.
		There, Cisneros observed, "Everyone seemed to have some communal knowledge which I did not have....
		I was a yellow weed among the city's cracks." This realization led Cisneros to focus her writing on the conflicts and yearnings of her own life and culture.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/cisneros.htm (250 words)

	identity theory \| the narrative thread - sandra cisneros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Writer, poet, performance artist Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago.
		Sandra Cisneros has published Bad Boys, My Wicked Wicked Ways, Loose Woman, House on Mango Street, Hair/Pelitos and now Caramelo.
		RB: Fighting with the City of San Antonio about the color of the house… [Because Cisneros' house is in an area designated as a historical district, the color she chose to paint her house became a matter of controversy]
	www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum76.html (5976 words)

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