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 inThe Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novelsA Ballad of Love and Glory,Across a Hundred Mountains, andDancing with Butterflies, the memoirsThe Distance Between Us: Young ReadersEdition, andADream Called Home, and the anthologySomewhere 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.