Leslie Pietrzyk
Leslie
Pietrzyk is the author of Pears on a Willow Tree, a novel
about
four generations of Polish-American women, and
Year
and a Day (William Morrow, March 2004). Her short fiction has
appeared in many literary journals, including Iowa Review, Gettysburg
Review, and New England Review. She has stories in two new
anthologies, The Dictionary of Failed Relationships and The
Bottom of the Ninth.
Her
work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she has won a number
of writing awards, including Shenandoah's Jean Charpiot Goodheart
Prize for Fiction. She has a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from
Northwestern University and an MFA in Creative Writing from American
University. Raised in Iowa, she now lives in Virginia.
Photo by Keith Barraclough
More Information
A
Year and a Day*
*Paperback
edition now available
*One
of three finalists for the 8th Annual Library
of Virginia Literary Awards!
*A
Book-of-the Month Club alternate selection
*Selected
for Borders Bookstores "Original Voices" series
*Washingtonian
Magazine Book Club's April 2004 selection
Biography