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MCC Daily Tribune

If All of Rochester Reads the Same Book featuring The Distance Between Us by Author Reyna Grande

Friday, March 30, 2018 at Noon

Monroe A & B of the Warshof Conference Center

Free and Open to the Public.

Tickets are Required and available at http://www.monroecctickets.com or the Brighton Campus Service Desk.

Reyna Grande is an award-winning memoirist and novelist. Her 2012 memoir, The Distance Between Us, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards for Autobiography. After crossing the Mexico/US border and living as an undocumented immigrant, Reyna became the first in her family to graduate from college, and later she earned an MFA in Creative Writing. Reyna is a member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop, which was founded by Sandra Cisneros, and is at work on a sequel to The Distance Between Us. She travels widely with her books and is a popular motivational speaker.

Sponsored by the Office of Student Life and Leadership Development's Visiting Scholar Series, Academic Foundations Department, and Writers & Books.

Jodi Oriel
Office of Student Life & Leadership Dev.
03/28/2018