Brenda Peynado: Reading

Presenter Information

Brenda Peynado, University of Houston

Document Type

Event

Location

Virtual: Crowdcast

Event Website

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/lions-in-winter-peynado/2

Start Date

12-3-2021 5:00 PM

End Date

12-3-2021 5:50 PM

Comments

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—has garnered starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. 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 and appear in places like The Georgia Review,The Sun, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review Online, The Threepenny Review, and Tor.com. She's currently writing a novel about the 1965 civil war in the Dominican Republic and a girl who can tell all possible futures, and she teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.

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Publication Date

2021