An Evening with Sandra Cisneros-Tuesday, April 8, at 5 pm

 An Evening with Sandra Cisneros on Tuesday, April 8, at 5 pm in the Old Chapel at UMass. Cisneros will give a talk and a reading from her recent work.

**free and open to the public**

Sandra Cisneros, a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, 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, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Her novel The House on Mango Street has sold over seven million copies and has been translated into over twenty-five languages. A new collection of poetry, Woman Without Shame, was published in 2022 by Knopf and also by Vintage Español in a Spanish language translation, Mujer sin vergüenza, by Liliana Valenzuela. Her other books include the dual-language Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo, A House of My Own: Stories from My Life, and Caramelo.

*This event is sponsored by the UMass Program in Comparative Literature; the UMass Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at UMass; the Five College Lecture Fund; the UMass Department of English; the UMass Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; the UMass Program in Spanish and Portuguese; the Amherst College Latinx and Latin American Studies Program; the Mount Holyoke English Department; the Mount Holyoke Program in Critical Race and Political Economy; the Mount Holyoke Department of Spanish; and the Smith College Program in Latin American and Latino/a Studies.