She is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street in 1984 and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories in 1991. Sandra Cisneros's work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature.
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