**Sandra Cisneros will not be signing books at the signing tent. However, you can purchase signed copies in the Nowhere Bookshop tent. Thank you!**
Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short-story writer, novelist, and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working class. Her numerous awards include National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, the National Medal of Arts, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, and the Harold Washington Literary Award.
Her novel The House on Mango Street has sold over seven million copies, has been translated into over 25 languages, and is required reading in elementary schools, high schools, and universities across the nation. In 2024, The House on Mango Street was published in the Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics Series in recognition of the 40th anniversary of its original publication.
A new collection of poetry, Woman Without Shame, Cisneros’s first in 28 years, was published in 2022 by Knopf and also by Vintage Español in a Spanish language translation by Liliana Valenzuela, Mujer sin vergüenza. Cisneros is at work on a new novel, Infinito, to be published by Knopf in 2027. Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico. As a single woman, she chose to have books instead of children. She earns her living by her pen.
