Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel
The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her 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.