SANDRA CISNEROS PRESENTS: REMEMBERING STORIES HISTORY FORGOT

Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US–Mexico 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, the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition, and A Dream Called Home. Her latest books are the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings and the novel The Ballad of Love and Glory. She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children. 

Reggie Scott Young is the author of the new poetry collection Yardbirds Squawking at the Moon. He has published poetry, fiction and literary nonfiction in leading magazines and journals such as Louisiana Literature, riverSedge, African American Review, and Oxford American. He is a recent recipient of an individual artists grant from the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture for a new poetry project titled Searching for Robert Johnson at the Alamodome. As a scholar, most recently at the University of Louisiana, Young has published works of literary criticism in critical books and journals, and he also served as co-editor of two books on Louisiana author Ernest J. Gaines. A member of the Macondo and Under the Volcano writers’ workshops, he now lives near Mission Concepción in San Antonio.