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:
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady MartineRead about the other entries on the list.
While the first book in this series, A Memory Called Empire, was primarily about colonialism and the culture differences between people of an empire versus people from an independent outpost station trying to preserve its autonomy, in this sequel the love story gets more of a starring role. Here, the ambassador from the outpost station and her counterpart from the empire struggle with the many ways that loving across cultures can lead to misunderstanding and exotification, wondering if they can surmount all that stands between them.
--Marshal Zeringue
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