Louis, Santa Ana, and Kansas City with several more in the works. My books have been translated into twenty-five languages, including Spanish, Galician, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, and, most recently, into Arabic, Greek, Farsi, Thai, and Serbo-Croatian. Each of my books has been translated into Spanish and is available in the U.S., and they're available as audio books read by me.Ĭaramelo and The House on Mango Street have been selected for many One City One Book projects in numerous communities including Los Angeles, Miami, Fort Worth, El Paso, Milwaukee, St. The collection of essays won the 2016 PEN Center USA Literary Award for creative nonfiction. The book is now available in eBook and paperback editions.Ī House of My Own: Stories From My Life was released in 2015. Have You Seen Marie?, a picture book for grown-ups with illustrations by Ester Hernández, was published by Knopf in 2012. Vintage Cisneros, published in 2004, is a compilation of selections from my works. It was also nominated for the Orange Prize in England. In 2005 Caramelo was awarded the Premio Napoli and was short listed for the Dublin International IMPAC Award. Loose Woman won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers' Award.Ĭaramelo was selected as a 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. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories 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, the Lannan Foundation Literary Award, and was 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. Prior to the pandemic, previews of the opera were held at at Yale and Chautauqua. I am currently working with composer Derek Bermel on House on Mango Street, The Opera. It has sold over six million copies since its initial publication and is still selling strongly. 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of the publication of The House on Mango Street in the United States and I traveled to twenty cities to celebrate with readers. The House on Mango Street, first published in 1984, won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 1985 and is required reading in middle schools, high schools, and universities across the country. Forthcoming works include the Spanish and English story Martita, I Remember You/Martita te recuerdo (Vintage 2021) and a poetry collection, Mujer Sin Vergüenza (2022).

Knopf, 2015) is a collection of personal essays, and Puro Amor (Sarabande 2018) is a bilingual story that I also illustrated. A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (Alfred A.

Knopf, 1994) the novels The House on Mango Street (Vintage, 1991) and Caramelo (Knopf, 2002), and the picture book Have You Seen Marie? (Knopf 2012). Knopf, 1994) a collection of stories, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Random House, 1991) a children's book, Hairs/Pelitos (Alfred A. My books include a chapbook of poetry, Bad Boys (Mango Press, 1980) two full-length poetry books, My Wicked Wicked Ways (Third Woman Press, 1987 Random House, 1992) and Loose Woman (Alfred A. I've 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. English, 1976) and the University of Iowa (M.F.A.

I studied at Loyola University of Chicago (B.A. I was born in Chicago in 1954, the third child and only daughter in a family of seven children.

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