Save the Date for Reyna Grande

Save the Date--Monday, Nov. 9

Reyna Grande

Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing

7:30 p.m.

New Book--Dancing with Butterflies--Just Released!

Reyna Grande is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Across A Hundred Mountains (Atria 2006), for which she received an American Book Award (2007) and El Premio Aztlan Literary Award (2006). Born in Mexico in 1975, Grande was raised by her grandparents after her parents left her behind while they worked in the U.S. She came to the U.S. at the age of nine as an undocumented immigrant and went on to become the first person in her family to obtain a higher education. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing and Film and Video from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She is a sought-after speaker at middle/high schools, colleges and universities across the nation, and teaches creative writing workshops in Los Angeles. She has served as a judge for the Pen/USA Literary Awards and is on the planning committee of the Latino Book & Family Festival.

Free and open to the public