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Brenda Peynado is the author of The Rock Eaters, a collection of short stories published by Penguin Books in 2021. Peynado’s debut frames the realities of class and race in America using elements of fantasy, science fiction, and other genres of speculative fiction, prompting author Julia Alvarez to observe, “What I most admire is the moral imagination of these stories, never nudging, never obvious, but subtle and unsettling.” Selections from The Rock Eaters have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Sun, Quarterly West, and other publications. “The Great Escape” won the 2015 Nelson Algren Short Story Award; “The Whitest Girl,” originally published in Ecotone, won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in the 2018 Pushcart anthology. Peynado has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Fulbright Program. She held a Kingsbury Fellowship at Florida State University, where she graduated with an MFA in fiction in 2011. She went on to earn her PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati in 2017. Currently, she is working on a novel about the Dominican Civil War of 1965. In the fall of 2021, she joined the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston as an assistant professor.