According to the Texas Observer, Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street, is leaving the Macondo Foundation, the literary organization she founded fifteen years ago in order to help support Latino/Latina writers. Macondo holds an annual literary festival and workshops for writer. Cisneros, now 57, has served to support, fund, and inspire a generation of writers. Not only is she leaving the Foundation, but she also plans to leave the state of Texas and move to Spain or Mexico in order to focus on her writing.

In the announcement of her departure, Cisneros expressed concern over the future of Chicana writers in Texas. “I live in a community that does not know its own history,” she said. “Things are definitely worse than when I first got to San Antonio. The only dark-haired woman dark-haired girls look up to now is Kim Kardashian.”

“I supported Macondo for years like a child, but my child is now 15 and she can start to support herself,” she said.