Leslie Pietrzyk
Leslie Pietrzyk | |
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 Author at the 2018Gaithersburg Book Festival | |
| Born | 1961 |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Writer |
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| Website | http://www.lesliepietrzyk.com/ |
Leslie Pietrzykis an American author who has published three novels,Pears on a Willow Tree,A Year and a Day,andSilver Girl,as well as two books of short stories,This Angel on My ChestandAdmit This To No One.An additional historical novel,Reversing the River,set in Chicago on the first day of 1900, was serialized on the literary app,Great Jones Street.[1]
Career
[edit]Her short fiction has appeared inThe Gettysburg Review,The Iowa Review,New England Review,The Sun,Ploughshares,River Styx,The Washington PostMagazine,TriQuarterly,andShenandoah.[2][3]
She holds a B.A. in English/Creative Writing fromNorthwestern Universityand an M.F.A. in creative writing fromAmerican University.[4]She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and teaches in the Masters in Writing program atJohns Hopkins Universityas well as the Low-Residency MFA program atConverse CollegeinSpartanburg,South Carolina.
Pietrzyk is also the founder and editor ofRedux,an online journal featuring previously published work.[5]
Personal life
[edit]In a 2015Salonpiece, Pietrzyk wrote that she met her first husband in college, that he died of a heart attack at age 37, after they had been married for ten years, and that she later remarried.[6]
Awards and honors
[edit]- Her first short story collection,This Angel on My Chest.,won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.[7]
- Pietrzyk's story "Stay There," first published inThe Southern Reviewand later included in her 2021 collection of linked short stories,Admit This To No One,won a 2020 Pushcart Prize.[8]
- Pietrzyk was a co-winner of thePolish American Historical Association's 2020 Creative Arts Prize, awarded to artists "who have promoted an awareness of the Polish experience in the Americas."[9]
- 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 fromShenandoahand the Chris O’Malley Fiction Prize fromMadison Review.[10]
Works
[edit]- Pears on a Willow Tree,New York, NY Bard 1998.ISBN9780380976676,OCLC245707562
- A Year and a Day: a Novel,New York: William Morrow, 2003.ISBN9780060554651,OCLC223590478
- This Angel on My Chest: stories,Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.ISBN9780822944423,OCLC910334443
- Silver Girl,Los Angeles, CA: Unnamed Press, 2018.ISBN9781944700515,OCLC1025341666[11]
- Admit This To No One: Stories,Unnamed Press, 2021.
References
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- ^"About | Leslie Pietrzyk".www.lesliepietrzyk.com.Retrieved2020-07-09.
- ^Pietrzyk, Leslie (2007-11-08)."Brief Bio".Retrieved2009-02-11.
- ^"Core and Visiting Faculty".Converse College.Retrieved2020-07-09.
- ^Hafiz, Amina (Winter 2005)."On Being A Writer, Food, And Stubbornness: An Interview with Leslie Pietrzyk".Folio.Retrieved2009-02-11.
- ^"Submission Guidelines for Redux".Retrieved2020-07-09.
- ^Pietrzyk, Leslie (1 July 2015)."This is the greatest love story and ghost story".Salon.Retrieved15 May2023.
- ^"Core and Visiting Faculty | Converse University | Spartanburg, SC".
- ^"News".Leslie Pietrzyk.Retrieved25 April2023.
- ^"Creative Arts Prize".Polish American Historical Association.Retrieved25 April2023.
- ^"About".
- ^"Playing Whack-a-Mole: Talking with Leslie Pietrzyk".The Rumpus.net.2018-03-14.Retrieved2019-10-09.
External links
[edit]| International | |
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| National | |
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- American University alumni
- Northwestern University alumni
- American women novelists
- American women short story writers
- Writers from Alexandria, Virginia
- Johns Hopkins University faculty
- Novelists from Virginia
- Novelists from Maryland
- American women academics