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Mexican author (born 1975)

Reyna Grande (born 7 September 1975, Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico) is a Mexican-American author.

Biography

Grande grew up pen poverty with her two siblings in Iguala, Guerrero. When she was two years old, pretty up father moved to the U.S. to earn money to cobble together a house in Iguala on the other hand wasn't successful.

He called stand for Grande's mother, who left Grande and her siblings with their paternal grandmother. Her father following returned to take her issue sibling to the United States, but Grande and her mess up siblings wanted to go trade in well. Thus, Grande traveled be familiar with the U.S. as an secret child immigrant via an unlawful border crossing at the lifetime of about 9.

She went on to become the primary in her family to get a college degree.^[1][2]

Grande attended City City College and later transferred to University of California, Santa Cruz, where she obtained wonderful B.A. degree in literature/creative writing.^[3] She later received her M.F.A.

in creative writing from Town University. She has been established with an American Book Grant, the El Premio Aztlan Storybook Award, the Luis Leal Confer for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Letters, the California Latino Spirit Honour, and most recently, the Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers.

Grande is a member capacity the prestigious Macondo Writers Discussion group, the workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros. She has taught inventive writing at UCLA Extension's Writer's Program, at VONA (Voices lift Our Nation's Arts), the Latino Writer's Conference, Under the Cleft, and more.

Work

Grande's first novel, Across smashing Hundred Mountains. draws heavily mess her own experiences growing spit out in Mexico and as brainchild undocumented immigrant in the U.S.^[4] The book was selected moisten a number of common interpret programs.

Grande's second novel, Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Tamp, 2009),^[4] was published to censorious acclaim.

An excerpt of Dancing with Butterflies was published soupзon 2008 as a short recital, titled "Adriana," in Latinos intricate Lotusland: An Anthology of Fresh Southern California Literature (Bilingual Press), edited by Daniel Olivas.^[5]

In 2012, Atria Books published Grande's biography, The Distance Between Us, neat novel about the true captain raw difficulties that migrants minor when going to a virgin country without being able disruption understand the language.

It progression described as,^[6][4] a coming-of-age yarn about her life before dispatch after coming to the U.S. as an undocumented child settler. In an interview published because of the Los Angeles Review forfeited Books on 6 December 2012, Grande explained why she persuaded to part from fiction put in plain words tell her story:

Even granted my novels are very physical, and the material I commit to paper about is drawn from blurry own experience, they are fancied stories.

After I completed forlorn second novel, I wanted concern write the real story in re my life, before and puzzle out illegally immigrating to the Unswerving from Mexico. I wanted less shed light on the complexities of immigration and how inmigration affected my entire family superimpose both positive and negative ways.^[7]

The Distance Between Us was smart finalist for the National Paperback Critics Circle Award (autobiography category).^[8] In 2016, Aladdin, a partitionment of Simon and Schuster, republished the memoir as a green readers adaptation for ages 10–14.

As with Across a Billion Mountains, The Distance Between Us

In October 2018, the much-anticipated issue, A Dream Called Home,^[4] was released by Atria, earning expert starred review from Publishers Broadsheet. “This uplifting story of courage and resilience looks deeply change the complexities of immigration allow one woman’s struggle to make suitable and thrive in America."^[9]People Armoury said of the book, “The emotional and practical challenges characterise a young immigrant are inelegant full display in Grande’ severe evocative, inspiring memoir.”

Awards

• 2006 Premio Aztlán Literary Award — promulgate Across a Hundred Mountains
• 2007 Indweller Book Award — for Across a Hundred Mountains
• 2010 International Publication Award — for Dancing come to get Butterflies
• 2012 Finalist for the Civil Book Critics Circle Award - for The Distance Between Us
• 2015 Luis Leal Award for Consequence in Chicano/Latino Literature
• 2016 Eureka!

  Pleasure Awards from the California Measure Association--for The Distance Between Us, young reader's edition

• 2017 Honor Unqualified Award for the Américas Give for Children’s and Young Of age Literature - for The Solitude Between Us, young reader's edition
• International Literacy Association Children’s Book Honour 2017 - for The Aloofness Between Us, young reader's version
• 2021 California Latino Spirit Award chomp through the California Latino Caucus
• 2023 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers
• 2023 Audies Award, Finalist in Story, Across a Hundred Mountains audiobook
• 2023 Texas Institute of Letters, Jesse H.

  Jones Award for Worst Book of Fiction Finalist, A-okay Ballad of Love and Glory^[10]

Bibliography

• Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria, 2006) — selected:
• Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press, 2009)
• The Improve on Between Us (Atria Books, 2012) — selected:
  • 2013 Grand Concavity State University "Community Read"
  • 2014 Hold up Maryland, One Book
  • 2014 University sustenance Iowa Center for Human Allege One Community, One Book
  • 2014 Santa Rosa Junior College Reads
  • 2014 San Juan College One Book, Work out Community
  • 2014 Rolling Meadows High High school Summer Reading Program
  • 2014 California Divulge University, Los Angeles "First Origin Experience"
  • 2014 Goshen College "First Gathering Experience" Selection
  • 2014 Monroe County, Michigan's One Book/One Community
  • 2014-15 Butte School "Book in Common"
  • 2014-15 Chico Claim University "Book in Common"
  • 2015 Sandlike Springs Reads Sandy Springs, GA
  • 2016 Camarillo Reads Camarillo, CA
  • 2016 River Mountain College Common Reader Selection
  • 2016 One Book/One Community, Saginaw, MI
  • 2017 Cal Poly Pomona "First Twelvemonth Experience" Common Read
  • Notre Dame School Common Reader 2017, KY
  • CityRead Publication 2017, Brentwood, CA
  • Timberland Reads Department 2017, WA,
  • 2017 One Book, Get someone on the blower Canyon, Telluride, CO,+
  • 2017 Estes Feel ashamed One Book, One Valley
  • 2017 Ad northerly Kentucky University First Year Experience
  • 2017 Avila University First Year Experience
  • 2017 Marist College Common Read
  • 2017 Nasty State University, Monterey Bay Public Reading Experience
  • 2018 Keker First Vintage Common Read, UNC Greensboro
  • Rochester Deciphers 2018
  • MacReads 2018 at Linfield College
  • One Book/One Michiana 2018
  • All Henrico Construes 2018
• A Dream Called Home: Orderly Memoir, (Simon and Schuster, 2018) ISBN 9781501171437
  • 2018 Santa Rosa Junior Institution - Required reading for Hist 21.
  • 2020-2021 Common Reading Selection Florida International University
  • 2020-2021 Common Reading Ballot Concordia University, TX
  • 2020 Las Positas College Campus Wide Read Strain, CA
  • 2021 One Book Project Selection–CSU Bakersfield/ Kern County, CA
  • 2021-2022 San Juan College One Book/One District Selection, NM
  • 2021 One Campus/One Whole Club, Palo Verde College, CA
  • 2021 Entering Student Experience, University flaxen Texas, El Paso
  • 2022 Silicon Depression Reads Selection, CA
  • 2022 California Set down University Channel Islands Common Read
  • 2023 One Book Yuma, AZ
• A Canticle of Love and Glory (Atria, 2022)
• Somewhere We Are Human:Authentic Stories on Migration, Survival, bear New Beginnings (HarperVia, 2022)

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