Author Bio
  Leslie Pietrzyk is the author of two novels, Pears on a Willow Tree (Avon Books) and A Year and a Day (William Morrow).  Her short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, and The Sun magazine.  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 received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences.  She teaches at the Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Program’s graduate writing program, the Writer’s Center, and Converse College’s low-residency MFA program.  Raised in Iowa, she now lives in Virginia.

Books by Leslie Pietrzyk

  Short stories by Leslie Pietrzyk have appeared in:
TriQuarterly, The Iowa Review, Epoch, The Gettysburg Review, Crescent Review,  Willow Springs, The Nebraska, Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Descant, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine),  Literal Latte,  Mondo Marilyn (anthology), Cottonwood, Whetstone, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Shenandoah,  High Plains Literary Review, The Journal, The Sun, West Branch, South Carolina Review, Seattle Review,  Spitball, River Oak Review,  River Styx, Other Voices, Gargoyle

Leslie Pietrzyk - AWARDS

  Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2007, 2004 and 2002
  Fellowship, KHN Center for the Arts, 2005
  Finalist, 8th Annual Library of Virginia Award for Fiction, 2005
  Julia Peterkin Award, Converse College, 2003
  Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, fellowship, 2002
  Pushcart Prize, Special Mention, 2001
  Columbia, Editors' Choice Award for Fiction, 1999
  Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, fellowship, 1999 
  Story, Short-Short contest, fourth place, 1998   
  Sewanee Writers' Conference, Walter E. Dakin Fellow, 1998 
  Jeanne Charpiot Goodheart Prize for Fiction, Shenandoah, 1996 
  Cited in "100 Distinguished Stories," Best American Short Stories, 1996 
  The Whetstone Prize, Whetstone, 1996 
  Descant, Frank O'Connor Memorial Award, 1996
  Pushcart Prize nominations:            
     Shenandoah, 2000 & 1996
     Natural Bridge, 2000
     Columbia, 1999
     The Nebraska Review, 1996 and 1992
     Whetstone, 1996                                         

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