Frances de Pontes Peebles

Frances de Pontes Peebles is the author of the novels The Seamstress and The Air You Breathe. She is a 2020 Creative Writing Fellow in Literature from The National Endowment for the Arts. A native of Pernambuco, Brazil, she holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in O. Henry Prize Stories, Zoetrope: All-Story, Missouri Review, and Indiana Review.

Fiction

High Rise

By Frances de Pontes Peebles August 6, 2021

"We wear masks anytime we leave the apartment. We order groceries and pay the motoboys big tips. We both suspended our private practices. Botox is not an essential service, though my patients would disagree."

Fiction Gender

The Air You Breathe

An excerpt from the novel by Frances de Pontes Peebles August 20, 2018

Being a woman is always a performance; only the very old and very young are allowed to bow out of it. The rest must play our parts with vigor but seemingly without effort.