Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a girl, she crossed the US-México border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels Across a Hundred Mountains and Dancing with Butterflies, and the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Reader's Edition and A Dream Called Home. She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information.