page_title: List of Mexican Americans
section_title: Authors and poets
hierarchical_section_title: List of Mexican Americans / Arts and entertainment / Authors and poets
caption_attribution_description: English: Sandra Cisneros speaking with attendees at an event titled "Legacies: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros, Rita Dove and Joy Harjo" hosted by archiTEXTS and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at the Beus Center for Law and Society at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
context_page_description: Mexican Americans are residents of the United States who have Mexican ancestry. The list includes Mexican immigrants and those who lived in the southwestern United States when the territory was incorporated in 1848.
context_section_description: Oscar Zeta Acosta – minor novelist, activist, attorney and politician
  Francisco X. Alarcon – author, poet, activist, and college professor
  Alurista – poet, activist, and college professor
  María Amparo Ruiz De Burton – author
  Rudolfo Anaya – author
  Gloria E. Anzaldúa – author, poet, scholar and activist
  Chloe Aridjis – novelist
  Carmen Beltrán – poet and playwright
  Norma Elia Cantú – writer and professor
  Ana Castillo – author, novelist, poet and essayist
  Lorna Dee Cervantes – poet
  Ingrid Chavez – singer, songwriter and poet
  Sandra Cisneros – author, novelist and poet
  María Antonieta Collins – TV host, journalist and author
  Lucha Corpi – poet and writer
  Carlos Cumpián – author and poet
  María Amparo Escandón – novelist, screenwriter, advertising creative director, and film producer.
  Diana Gabaldon – novelist
  Dana Gioia – writer, chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts
  Guillermo Gómez-Peña – artist, author, poet and activist
  Rigoberto González – author and critic
  Rodolfo Gonzales – political activist, poet and featherweight boxing champion
  Reyna Grande – author, memoirist
  Juan Felipe Herrera – poet, author, translator and activist
  Miriam Herrera – author and poet
  Rolando Hinojosa – author, novelist, poet and essayist
  Luis Leal (writer) – writer and literary critic
  Paul Martínez Pompa – author and poet
  José Montalvo – author, poet and activist
  José Montoya – artist and poet
  Pat Mora – author and poet
  Cherríe Moraga – author, poet, essayist and activist
  Angela Morales – award-winning essayist
  Julian Nava – author, educator and diplomat
  Daniel Olivas – author and attorney
  Americo Paredes – (1915–1999) novelist
  Tomás Rivera – author, poet and educator
  Alberto Rios – American poet and author
  Luis J. Rodriguez – author, poet, novelist, journalist, critic and columnist
  Richard Rodriguez – author
  Pam Muñoz Ryan – award-winning children's author
  Luis Omar Salinas – author and poet
  Raúl R. Salinas – poet
  Ricardo Sanchez – author and United States Army general
  Jimmy Santiago Baca – author and poet
  John Phillip Santos – author, journalist, and filmmaker
  Leslie Marmon Silko – writer, key figure in the First Wave of the Native American Literary Renaissance.
  Octavio Solis – award-winning playwright and director
  Gary Soto – author and poet
  Sergio Troncoso – author, novelist, short-story writer and essayist
  John Trudell – musician, author, poet and Political activist
  Luís Alberto Urrea – author, poet, novelist and essayist
  José Antonio Villarreal – author and novelist
  Victor Villaseñor – author and public speaker
  Maria Helena Viramontes – author and professor
  Karen Zacarias – award-winning playwright
caption: Sandra Cisneros
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