A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros
A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros
A Reading and Conversation with Sandra Cisneros
Latina Life Stories series curated by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
Date: September 18, 2017
Time: 11:00am - 12:50pm
Location: Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates and book awards nationally and internationally, and most recently Chicago’s Fifth Star Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the National Medal of the Arts, awarded to her by President Obama in 2016.. The House on Mango Street has sold over five million copies, been translated into over twenty languages, and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the nation. Founder of awards and foundations that serve writers and a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, Sandra Cisneros earns her living by her pen.
Contact: Vanessa Pérez-Rosario Associate Professor
Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
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