Crossing Mountains: A Conversation with Reyna Grande

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Crossing Mountains: A Conversation with Reyna Grande

Author Reyna Grande will talk about her journey as an immigrant and the obstacles she encountered along the way to her American Dream

Date and time

Wednesday, April 7, 2021 · 12 - 1:15pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Event link- https://niu-edu.zoom.us/j/84082506140?pwd=eVloR2JXSWZXL1ZMVEVUd1cxT3FoQT09

Hosted by the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Cosponsored by the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies and the Department of English Author Reyna Grande will talk about her journey as an immigrant and as a writer, and the obstacles she encountered along the way to her American Dream.

Reyna Grande is the author of the memoirs The Distance Between Us and A Dream Called Home, and the novels, Across a Hundred Mountains and Dancing with Butterflies. Her books have been adopted as the common read selection by schools, colleges and cities across the country. Reyna has received an American Book Award and the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award, and a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. The young reader’s version of The Distance Between Us received an International Literacy Association Children’s Book Award in 2017. Writing about immigration, family separation, language trauma, the price of the American Dream, and her writing journey, Reyna’s work has appeared in The New York Times, the Dallas Morning News, CNN, The Lily at The Washington Post, and Buzzfeed, among others. In March 2020, she was a guest on Oprah’s Book Club. Currently, she is at work on a novel set during the Mexican-American War.

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