Her work appears in Tor.com, The Georgia Review, The Sun (London), The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review,
Prairie Schooner, and more than forty other journals.
Peynado 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.
The Rock Eaters is her first story collection.
At Tor.com Peynado tagged "five science fiction and fantasy novels I turn to for inspiration that are about love tearing down walls, love building new bridges, love desperate to overcome culture, love breaking the worlds that have failed it, love demanding we envision the new worlds (werewolves, alien portals, telekinetic powers!) that would allow it to thrive." One title on the list:
Ink by Sabrina VourvouliasRead about another entry on the list.
A dystopian future of America (and yet one all too realistic and close to home, echoing Japanese internment camps during WWII) where birth citizenship is stripped retroactively from people of immigrant descent, given identifying tattoos with their denaturalized status, and ultimately sent to immigration camps. Two young people, one behind bars because of her ancestry and one free and privileged with the “right kind” of citizenship, betray their fears to reach across difference and literal bars to save themselves and America.
--Marshal Zeringue
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