Brenda Peynado‘s stories have been selected for the O. Henry Prize Stories 2015, the Chicago Tribune‘s Nelson Algren Award, the Writers at Work Fellowship, the Glimmer Train Fiction Open Contest, and a Fulbright Grant to the Dominican Republic. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Georgia Review, Threepenny Review, EPOCH, Prairie Schooner, Ecotone, Black Warrior Review, Pleiades, and others. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati.
May/June 2017
Yaiza
The day my mother hired a new housekeeper to replace the last one caught stealing was the same day Yaiza arrived on the tennis courts. It was almost summer. Our […]