Frances de Pontes Peebles

Frances de Pontes Peebles is the author of the novels The Seamstress and The Air You Breathe. Her books have been translated into ten languages. Born in Pernambuco, Brazil, she is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a Creative Writing Fellow in Literature from The National Endowment for the Arts, and has received a Fulbright grant and Brazil’s Sacatar Fellowship. In 2019, she served as Visiting Associate Professor of Fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in O. Henry Prize Stories, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Electric Literature, and Guernica. Her novel, The Seamstress, was adapted for film and mini-series on Brazil’s Globo Network. She is proud to serve as Board Chair of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and on the steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action Illinois.

Visit her site at francespeebles.com