In an interview published by the Los Angeles Review of Books on 6 December 2012, Grande explained why she decided to part from fiction to tell her story:Įven though my novels are very personal, and the material I write about is drawn from my own experience, they are fictional stories. It is described as, a coming-of-age story about her life before and after coming to the U.S. In 2012, Atria Books published Grande's memoir, The Distance Between Us, a novel about the true and raw difficulties that migrants face when going to a new country without being able to understand the language. An excerpt of Dancing with Butterflies was published in 2008 as a short story, titled "Adriana," in Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature (Bilingual Press), edited by Daniel Olivas. Grande's second novel, Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press, 2009), was published to critical acclaim. The book was selected by a number of common read programs. draws heavily on her own experiences growing up in Mexico and as an undocumented immigrant in the U.S. Grande's first novel, Across a Hundred Mountains.
She has taught creative writing at UCLA Extension's Writer's Program, at VONA (Voices of Our Nation's Arts), the Latino Writer's Conference, Under the Volcano, and more. Grande is a member of the prestigious Macondo Writers Workshop, the workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros. She has been honored with an American Book Award, the El Premio Aztlan Literary Award, the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature, the California Latino Spirit Award, and most recently, the Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers. in creative writing from Antioch University. Grande attended Pasadena City College and later transferred to University of California, Santa Cruz, where she obtained a B.A. She went on to become the first in her family to obtain a college degree. as an undocumented child immigrant via an illegal border crossing at the age of about 9. Her father later returned to take her eldest sibling to the United States, but Grande and her other siblings wanted to go as well. He called for Grande’s mother, who left Grande and her siblings with their paternal grandmother. to earn money to build a house in Iguala but wasn't successful. When she was two years old, her father moved to the U.S. Grande grew up in poverty with her two siblings in Iguala, Guerrero. Reyna Grande (born 7 September 1975, Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico) is a Mexican-American author. B.A, University of California, Santa Cruz
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