She graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. In her third year of school she took a creative writing class and decided to continue studying writing. While in school, she was an active writer and was known as “the poet.” After high school, Cisneros attended Loyola University of Chicago. However, she did not write any more poetry until she was in high school. When Cisneros was ten years old, she wrote her first poem. A year after she was born, her parents had another daughter, but she died as a baby. They had seven children, but Cisneros was the only girl. Although her parents met in Chicago, they were both from Mexico. Sandra Cisneros was born on Decemin Chicago, Illinois. Her book called The House on Mango Street, has sold over six million copies and has been translated into over twenty languages. On September 22, 2016, President Barack Obama presented Cisneros with the National Medal of Arts for her work. Sandra Cisneros has won multiple awards, fellowships, and honors as an internationally recognized writer.
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