What an honor to close 2022 with our latest coffee table Alegría Magazine edition with none other than the iconic writer/poet Sandra Cisneros our ALEGRÍA cover artist.

Sandra Cisneros is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms that investigate emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, was awarded one of 25 new Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowships in 2017, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicano literature. Inside this edition, we talked about her magical new poetry collection, Woman Without Shame, among many other things.

Inside our 200 pages of this collection, we have also added new exclusive interviews with Julia Cameron and Rafael Agustin + more poetry from LIGA underserved students and contest winners + Latine/x business leaders and businesses like Angels Jewels Insurenex, and Casa Sanchez.