2023 Lawrence A. Sanders award in fiction to Sandra Cisneros

3000 Northeast 151st Street,North Miami FL 33181

13 April, 2023

Description

Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class.  Her novel The House on Mango Street has sold over seven million copies, has been translated into over twenty-five languages, and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the nation. Her numerous awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, the PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature, the National Medal of Arts, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. A new collection of poetry, Woman Without Shame, Cisneros’s first in 28 years, was published by Knopf in 2022. 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.