CELEBRATED NOVELIST SANDRA CISNEROS VISITS TAMIU Members of the TAMIU community welcomed iconic author Sandra Cisneros to campus this fall including a reading shared by Cisneros, a Q&A session and book signing in the Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Recital Hall. Presented by the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Humanities, this event was offered free of charge and was open to the public. Cisneros, the celebrated author of the beloved best-selling novel The House on Mango Street, a coming-ofage classic, read from her new poetry collection, Woman Without Shame. Woman Without Shame has been hailed as a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations chronicling the author’s pilgrimage toward rebirth and recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. Honest and humorous and full of meditations on desire, love, memory, and self-awareness, Woman Without Shame is considered the culmination of Cisneros’ search for home – in the México of her ancestors, and in her heart. Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, the PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature, the National Medal of Arts, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. Her novel The House on Mango Street has sold over seven million copies, has been translated into over 25 languages, and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the nation. Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo, a story in English and Spanish, was published in 2021. Woman Without Shame, published by Knopf in the Fall of 2022, is Cisneros’s first book of poetry in 28 years. Cisneros signs copies of her new poetry collection Woman without Shame. Cisneros lectures before a full-house. 12
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