Cisneros-biography

Sandra Cisneros’ writing has been shaped by her experiences. Because of her unique background she is very different from traditional American writers. An important theme of her work is the heterogeneity of the Mexican-American community, expressed through differences of class, gender, education, and language use. From the start of her life Sandra Cisneros didn’t have what you or I would consider a “normal” childhood. “As a person growing up in a society where the …

…Boston Globe, Cisneros stated that her poetry "is almost a journal of daily life as woman and writer. I'm always aware of being on the frontier. Even if I'm writing about Paris or Sarajevo, I'm still writing about it from this border position that I was raised in." In her poetry, as in all her works, Cisneros incorporates Latino dialect in ways that reveal the fears and doubts unique to Latinas and women in general.