Sandra Cisneros (Chicago, 1954) is internationally acclaimed for her poetry and prose, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She has received numerous awards, including NEA fellowships in both poetry and prose, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Texas Medal of Arts, the PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. She has fostered the careers of many new and emerging writers through two nonprofit organizations she founded: Macondo Writers, which celebrates its twenty-seventh anniversary in 2022, and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation, which has been active for fifteen years. As a single woman, Cisneros chose to have books instead of children. Her literary archive is housed in the Wittliff Collection at Texas State University. She currently lives in San Miguel de Allende. Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico who supports herself through her writing.