5-week writing workshop with award-winning author Reyna Grande

Reyna Grande

What: 5 Week Writing Workshop with Reyna Grande

Where: Libreria Martinez-Lynwood

11221 Long Beach Blvd
Lynwood CA, California 90262

When: 5 Tuesdays, July 21-August 18, 7:00 pm

Price: $125.00

email Reyna at reynagrande@yahoo.com to register

About Reyna Grande:

Reyna Grande is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Across A Hundred Mountains (Atria 2006) , for which she has received an American Book Award and El Premio Aztlan Literary Award . 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 was born in Mexico and 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 ten as an undocumented immigrant and went on to become the first person in her family to obtain a higher education. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. She is a sought-after speaker at middle/high schools, colleges and universities across the nation. Her second novel, Dancing with Butterflies, will be published in October 2009. She is currently at work on a memoir.

More info:

http://www.reynagrande.com/index2.html

http://www.reynagrande.com/News%20and%20Events.htm

--Mayra Calvani is the author of the parody/satire, Sunstruck.