Reyna Grande is an author, speaker, educator, and event coordinator. Her first novel, Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria, 2006), received a 2010 Latino Books Into Movies Award, a 2007 American Book Award, and the 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award.... Read full bio
Dancing with Butterflies uses the alternating voices of four very different women whose lives interconnect through a common passion for their Mexican...
Q. What is your motto or maxim?A. Things happen for a reasonQ. Which living person do you most admire?A. J.K. RowlingQ. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?A. being straight-forward, goal-oriented, imaginativeQ. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?A. mango sprinkled with chili powderQ. What is your greatest achievement?A. Becoming the first person in my family to graduate from college.Learn more about Reyna Grande
...Noir” contributors Gary Phillips and Jim Pascoe at 12:30 p.m. Other authors scheduled to appear include: Reyna Grande, a 2010 International Latino Book Award winner for her novel, “Dancing with Butterflies,” Louise Su Tang, “Cantonese Yankee,”...
...Community leader Denice Garcia; Educator Gloria Garcia; Noted artist Ignacio Gomez; Educational leader Myriam Grajales-Hall; Award winning author Reyna Grande; Attorney Dennis Hernández, who is also president of Latino Literacy Now; Award winning...
...Examiner Do you like this Article? Apr 16, 2011 – The Autry National Center presents “An Afternoon With Reyna Grande” tomorrow Sunday April 17 at 2 pm. Grande, the daughter of migrant workers from Mexico, is the author of Across a Hundred...
...Award-winning author and chronicler of the immigrant experience appears at the Autry on April 17 Author Reyna Grande looks off into the middle distance while she thinks about an interviewer's question. She is mentally traveling in familiar but painful...
...Onion. Off-Ramp blog Fishbowl LA editor Tina Dupuy was on MSNBC's show with Cenk Uygur. FBLA Author Reyna Grande has sold to Atria a new book, "The Distance Between Us," on her childhood in Mexico and life after crossing into the U.S. at nine. Publishers...