Sandra Cisneros is an incredibly influential Chicana writer, poet, and essayist. Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 and is best known for her novel, “The House on Mango Street”, which tells the story of a young Mexican-American girl growing up in the quarter of Hispanic Chicago. Cisneros has inspired the work of many Chicana and Latina writers and her influence on Mexican-American literature can’t be overstated.