Tracey Rose Peyton received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas-Austin and her BA from Howard University. Her debut novel, Night Wherever We Go, was shortlisted for The Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize and the California Book Award for First Fiction. Her short work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner, Best American Short Stories 2021, and elsewhere. She was the 2024-2025 Rona Jaffe Fellow at The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. Currently, she’s the Bonderman Assistant Professor of the Practice at Brown University. She lives in New York City.