(born 1954) The daughter of a Mexican American mother and Mexican father, Sandra Cisneros grew up in poverty and spent much of her childhood moving back and forth between Mexco City and Chicago, IL. Her writing reflects this state of migrancy with its apparent longing for rootedness. Cisneros’ award-winning works, the novel House on Mango Street (1983) and her book of poems, My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987), have made her a leading figure in Chicana literature.