![]() ![]() ![]() 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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