Leslie Pietrzyk

Leslie Pietrzyk is an American author who has three traditionally published novels, Pears on a Willow Tree, A Year and a Day, and Silver Girl. Her historical novel, Reversing the River, set in Chicago on the first day of 1900, was serialized on the literary app, Great Jones Street.[1]

Leslie Pietrzyk
Author at the 2018 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Born1961  (age 59)
Alma mater
OccupationWriter 
Employer
Awards

Career

Her short fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, New England Review, The Sun, Ploughshares, River Styx, The Washington Post Journal, TriQuarterly, and Shenandoah.[2][3]

She holds a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from American University.[4] She lives in Alexandria, Virginia and teaches in the Masters in Writing program at Johns Hopkins University as well as the Low-Res MFA program at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Pietrzyk is also the founder and editor of Redux, an online journal featuring previously published work.[5]

Awards and honors
  • Her short story collection, This Angel on My Chest., won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.[6]
  • Other awards include residencies to Hawthornden Castle, the Wolff Cottage in Fairhope (AL), Writer in Residence at ARGS, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and The Hambidge Center.
  • Short story awards include the Jeanne Charpiot Goodheart Prize for Fiction from Shenandoah and the Chris O’Malley Fiction Prize from Madison Review.[7]

Works
  • Pears on a willow tree, New York, NY Bard 1998. ISBN 9780380976676, OCLC 245707562
  • A year and a day : a novel, New York : William Morrow, 2003. ISBN 9780060554651, OCLC 223590478
  • This angel on my chest : stories, Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. ISBN 9780822944423, OCLC 910334443
  • Silver girl, Los Angeles, CA: Unnamed Press, 2018. ISBN 9781944700515, OCLC 1025341666[8]

References
  1. "About | Leslie Pietrzyk". www.lesliepietrzyk.com. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  2. Pietrzyk, Leslie (2007-11-08). "Brief Bio". Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  3. "Core and Visiting Faculty". Converse College. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  4. Hafiz, Amina (Winter 2005). "On Being A Writer, Food, And Stubbornness: An Interview with Leslie Pietrzyk". Folio. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  5. "Submission Guidelines for Redux". Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  6. https://www.converse.edu/program/master-of-fine-arts-mfa/current-and-recent-core-faculty/#1487275321270-78275b22-a84f
  7. http://www.lesliepietrzyk.com/about/
  8. "Playing Whack-a-Mole: Talking with Leslie Pietrzyk". The Rumpus.net. 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
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