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.