Brenda Peynado

Brenda Peynado's genre-bending short story collection, The Rock Eaters --featuring alien arrivals, angels falling from rooftops, virtual reality, and sorrows manifesting as tumorous stones--was named one of NPR, the New York Public Library, and Electric Literature's best books of the year. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune 's Nelson Algren Award, and inclusion in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy . She teaches creative writing at the...See more

Brenda Peynado's genre-bending short story collection, The Rock Eaters --featuring alien arrivals, angels falling from rooftops, virtual reality, and sorrows manifesting as tumorous stones--was named one of NPR, the New York Public Library, and Electric Literature's best books of the year. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune 's Nelson Algren Award, and inclusion in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy . She teaches creative writing at the University of Houston. See less