Leslie Pietrzyk
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.
Read Leslie's Literary Blog, Work in Progress
Photo by Keith Barraclough
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A
Year and a Day*
*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