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桑德拉·希斯内罗丝桑德拉·希斯內羅絲（Sandra Cisneros，1954年12月20日－），出生於美國的芝加哥（Chicago），美國當代著名的女詩人和散文傢，墨西哥裔，1984年，在她年僅30歲時就憑藉《芒果街上的小屋》一舉成名。此外還著有短篇故事集《喊女溪及其他》和若幹詩集，具體有《My Wicked, Wicked Ways》《Bad Boys》等，長篇小說《拉拉的褐色披肩》（Caramelo）等。桑德拉的書行文清澈，親切易懂，以女性作傢特有的敏感筆觸，述說着淡淡的喜悅與憂傷。
主要作品簡介
《芒果街上的小屋》
主人公：埃斯佩朗莎 （西班牙語裏的希望）
簡介：生活在芝加哥拉美移民社區芒果街的女孩埃斯佩朗莎，生就對他人痛苦的同情心和對美的感覺力，她用清澈的眼打量周圍的世界，用詩一樣美麗稚嫩的語言講述成長、講述滄桑、講述生命的美好與不易，講述年輕的熱望與夢想。夢想有一所自己的房子，夢想在寫作中追尋自我，獲得自由和幫助別人的能力。
作者的話：我寫的不單是美國的事情，也是你們的。我肯定，在中國，也有這樣一條芒果街，陌生人去到那裏時，會感到一種“恐外”氛圍。尤其，在我們今天生活的世界中，如此多的群體在相互交融：城市居民與鄉村居民、中産者與貧民、男人與女人。我們每天都在跨越疆域，甚至不用離開自己的傢就這樣做了。
1954年生，當代美國著名女詩人，墨西哥裔，30歲時憑藉《芒果街上的小屋》一書成名。另著有短篇故事集《喊女溪及其他》和詩集若幹。她寫在《芒果街上的小屋》 的話：
我寫的不單是美國的事情，也是你們的。我肯定，在中國，也有這樣一條芒果街，陌生人去到那裏時，會感到一種“恐外”氛圍。尤其，在我們今天生活的世界中，如此多的群體在相互交融：城市居民與鄉村居民、中産者與貧民、男人與女人。我們每天都在跨越疆域，甚至不用離開自己的傢就這樣做了。
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is a Chicana writer. She is best known for her first novel The House on Mango Street (1983) 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, was awarded one of 25 new Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowships in 2017, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature.
Cisneros's early life provided many experiences she would later draw on as a writer: she grew up as the only daughter in a family of six brothers, which often made her feel isolated, and the constant migration of her family between Mexico and the United States instilled in her the sense of "always straddling two countries ... but not belonging to either culture." Cisneros's work deals with the formation of Chicana identity, exploring the challenges of being caught between Mexican and Anglo-American cultures, facing the misogynist attitudes present in both these cultures, and experiencing poverty. For her insightful social critique and powerful prose style, Cisneros has achieved recognition far beyond Chicano and Latino communities, to the extent that The House on Mango Street has been translated worldwide and is taught in U.S classrooms as a coming-of-age novel.
Cisneros has held a variety of professional positions, working as a teacher, a counselor, a college recruiter, a poet-in-the-schools, and an arts administrator, and has maintained a strong commitment to community and literary causes. In 1998 she established the Macondo Writers Workshop, which provides socially conscious workshops for writers, and in 2000 she founded the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, which awards talented writers connected to Texas. Cisneros currently resides in Mexico.