Reyna Grande

Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us , a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory , Across a Hundred Mountains , and Dancing with Butterflies , the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition , and A Dream Called Home , and the...See more

Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us , a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory , Across a Hundred Mountains , and Dancing with Butterflies , the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition , and A Dream Called Home , and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration , Survival, and New Beginnings . She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information. See less