'Creating art is a spiritual act,' writer Sandra Cisneros tells Deseret News

Acclaimed writer Sandra Cisneros is visiting Salt Lake City Tuesday, April 25, thanks to the University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center’s Artists in Residence program.Cisneros is a poet, novelist and essayist who has won many national awards, including the National Medal of Arts in 2016, according to the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first and most successful book, “The House on Mango Street,” is partly based on her own life experience of growing up in a poor and racial