Reyna Grande author talk: “Beyond Borders: Writing as Activism & Healing”

Wednesday, February 5
6:00pm – 7:00pm
UWM Libraries Conference Center (4th floor)
2311 E Hartford Ave

Book signing at 7:00pm (no cost)
Free and open to the public – please register below

Hear from Reyna Grande, author of the bestselling memoirs The Distance Between Us (Atria, 2012) and A Dream Called Home (Atria, 2018), where she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as an undocumented child immigrant.  Grande has also authored several novels and co-edited an anthology by and about undocumented Americans called  Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival and New Beginnings (HarperVia, 2022).

This event is free and open to the public; the lecture will be immediately followed by a book signing at no cost. Boswell Book Company will have books available for purchase at the event (credit, debit, Apple and Google pay).

Presented by the UWM Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, supported in part with grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI National Resource Centers program.

With the UWM Center for International Education, College of Letters & Science, Department of English, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with support from the Mellon Foundation, Sociocultural Programming, and the Vilas Trust.

Questions may be directed to Monica VanBladel at vanblade@uwm.edu.