Yonkers Event.

Join us as we welcome beloved and best-selling author Sandra Cisneros to Yonkers as the featured speaker at our Spring Gala. Funds raised will support and enhance Yonkers Public Library offerings to all patrons.   Among the programs the Foundation hopes to support this year are enhancing teen spaces in all branches, developing a Homework Help program for high-school students, and expanding programming for the quickly growing young artist community at the Riverfront Art Gallery.  Free parking will be available for Gala ticket holders! Buy Tickets   For more information, to become a sponsor or to purchase a journal ad, visit: www.foundationforypl.org/gala     ABOUT SANDRA CISNEROS: Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates and national and international book awards, including Chicago’s Fifth Star Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award, the Fairfax Prize, and the National Medal of the Arts awarded to her by President Obama in 2016. Most recently, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized among The Frederick Douglass 200, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. Her classic, coming-of-age novel, The House on Mango Street, has sold over six million copies, has been translated into over twenty languages, and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the nation.  Sandra Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico The Foundation for the Yonkers Public Library | 1 Larkin Center, Yonkers, NY 10701