Grace Chen

Grace Chen was born in Taiwan in 1982 and immigrated to Vancouver when she was twelve years old. She studied at Capilano and Vancouver Community College. She wrote Cinderella-Grace with the help of writing coach Judy McFarlane, and the story of their collaboration is told in Judy McFarlane’s book Writing with Grace: A Journey beyond Down Syndrome (Douglas and McIntyre, 2014). Grace and Judy presented Cinderella-Grace at the World Down Syndrome Congress in August 2006 in Vancouver.