I am currently working with composer Derek Bermel on House on Mango Street, The Opera. It has sold over six million copies since its initial publication and is still selling strongly.В 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of the publication of The House on Mango Street in the United States and I traveled to twenty cities to celebrate with readers. The House on Mango Street, first published in 1984, won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 1985 and is required reading in middle schools, high schools, and universities across the country.

Forthcoming works include the Spanish and English story Martita, I Remember You/Martita te recuerdo (Vintage 2021) and a poetry collection, Mujer Sin VergГјenza (2022). Knopf, 2015) is a collection of personal essays, and Puro Amor (Sarabande 2018) is a bilingual story that I also illustrated. A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994) the novels The House on Mango StreetВ (Vintage, 1991) and CarameloВ (Knopf, 2002), and the picture book Have You Seen Marie? (Knopf 2012). Knopf, 1994) a collection of stories, Woman Hollering Creek and Other StoriesВ (Random House, 1991) a children's book, Hairs/PelitosВ (Alfred A. My books include a chapbook of poetry, Bad BoysВ (Mango Press, 1980) two full-length poetry books, My Wicked Wicked WaysВ (Third Woman Press, 1987 Random House, 1992) and Loose WomanВ (Alfred A. I've worked as a teacher and counselor to high-school dropouts, as an artist-in-the-schools where I taught creative writing at every level except first grade and pre-school, a college recruiter, an arts administrator, and as a visiting writer at a number of universities including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. English, 1976) and the University of Iowa (M.F.A. I studied at Loyola University of Chicago (B.A.

I was born in Chicago in 1954, the third child and only daughter in a family of seven children.

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