Sandra Cisneros (born in Chicago, Illinois) is a Chicana author best known for her celebrated novel The House on Mango Street (Arte Público Press, 1984), a touchstone of Chicano literature widely taught in schools and universities. She studied at Loyola University Chicago and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has published two collections of poetry: Bad Boys (Mango Publications, 1980) and Loose Woman (Knopf, 1994). She has received the MacArthur Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. She has been a writer-in-residence at universities across the United States and lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.