About Reyna

Reyna Grande is the author of the memoirs The Distance Between Us and A Dream Called Home, and the novels Across a Hundred Mountains, Dancing With Butterflies, and A Ballad of Love and Glory. Her books have been adopted as the common read selection by schools, colleges, and cities across the country. 

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“Reyna Grande is a fierce, smart, shimmering light of a writer with an important story to tell.” 

–Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Writers like Reyna Grande give us more than a story, more than a book, more than just a slice of their experience or their imagination; they give us a world in which to dwell, a place we can always return to when we need to make sense of the chaos that surrounds us.”

–Valeria Luiselli, award-winning author of Tell Me How It Ends

“Reyna Grande is a fearless writer and a tireless warrior for the unrepresented and silenced. Her power is growing with every book.”

–Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Devil’s Highway