'What makes her writing distinctive'

 

“The nice thing about writing a novelis you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, youlook very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snapsomething out.”– Sandra Cisneros

Bornon Dec. 20, 1954 Cisneros – whose name means Hope in English – is a Mexican-American writer best knownfor her novel The House on Mango Street and short story collection WomanHollering Creek and Other Stories.
“Onepress account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longestnight I've ever spent,” she said after spending many years developing House on Mango Street while working as ateacher, counselor, college recruiter, and poet-in-the-schools.
 She is the recipient of numerous writing awards including a National Endowment for theArts Fellowship and a Ford Foundation “Art of Change" fellowship.           

“Iam a woman, and I am a Latina,” she said. “Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are thethings that give my writing power.”