Frances de Pontes Peebles

Frances de Pontes Peebles is the author of the novels The Seamstress and The Air You Breathe. Her stories have appeared in O. Henry Prize Stories, Zoetrope: All-Story, the Missouri Review, the Indiana Review, and Guernica. A native of Pernambuco, Brazil, she holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow in Literature.