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Brenda Peynado

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Bio

Brenda Peynado’s stories have won an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Literary Award, selection for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and The Best Small Fictions, a Dana Award, a Fulbright grant to the Dominican Republic, and other awards. Her fiction appears in The Georgia Review, The Sun (London), The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, and more than forty other journals. She received her MFA at Florida State University and her PhD at the University of Cincinnati. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida. This will be her first collection.

Brenda Peynado Books

Time's Agent book cover

Time's Agent

Brenda Peynado
The Rock Eaters book cover

The Rock Eaters

Brenda Peynado
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2019 Edition book cover

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2019 Edition

Elizabeth Bear
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The Touches

Brenda Peynado
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The Kite Maker

Brenda Peynado
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