Sandra Cisneros is the internationally renowned author of

The House on Mango Street

,

Caramelo

,

Woman Hollering Creek

,

Have You Seen Marie?

,

and most recently,

A House of My Own

.

She has received the MacArthur Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and is also the founder of the Macondo Foundation, the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation, and Los MacArturos (the Latino MacArthur Fellows).