Sandra Cisneros’ awards include NEA fellowships in poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur fellowship award, the PEN center USA Literary Award, a National Medal of the Arts, and the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship. The House on Mango Street has sold over six million copies and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the country. Her latest books are A House of My Own: Stories From My Life, and Puro Amor, a dual language novel edited by the author. Founder of awards and foundations that serve writers, Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and earns her living by her pen.