Acknowledgements

Woman Hollering Creek may have had the working title “The Sky Has Little Eyes,” as there are four folders so labeled in this series. That material was kept together in box 51, folders 2-8, with drafts of all of the stories arranged alphabetically beginning in box 51, folder 9. Nearly every story contains multiple drafts, some with translations, such as “Eleven,” “Eyes of Zapata,” “La Fabulosa, A Texas Operetta,” “Never Marry a Mexican,” “Tepeyac,” and “Woman Hollering Creek.” Additional translations of the entire book are in boxes 53 and 54, and adaptations of “Bien Pretty” and “Eleven” are in box 54. Of particular note is a 1986 letter from Cleao Solis, “the real inspiration for Woman Hollering Creek” (box 51, folder 1). The typewriter Cisneros used when writing this book is located in the Artifacts series.