Brenda Peynado’s stories have won an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, selection for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 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, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner and over 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.