Grande to participate in Overlake School Writers’ Symposium

Published 1:33 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Award-winning novelist Reyna Grande will spend the day with students at The Overlake School at this year’s Writers’ Symposium on March 16.

Grande is best known for her novels “Across a Hundred Mountains” and “Dancing with Butterflies.” She recently published “The Distance Between Us,” a memoir of her life before and after immigrating from Mexico to the U.S.

In a synopsis of her book, her website states: “Born in Mexico and raised by her grandparents after her parents left to find work in the U.S., at nine years old, Reyna enters the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant to live with her father.”

Grande will be working with upper-school students during the afternoon and will be holding an evening discussion from 7:30-9 p.m. in Discovery Hall on The Overlake School campus.

The Writers’ Symposium is a unique program at Overlake, which has been providing students exposure to a variety of professional authors through in-depth writing workshops and lectures.

For more information, visit www.overlake.org.