Leslie Pietrzyk

Leslie Pietrzyk is the author of three novels, including Silver Girl, published by Unnamed Press in 2018. Her first collection of short stories, This Angel on My Chest, won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize an was published by University of Pittsburgh Press. Short fiction and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Story magazine, Southern Review, the Gettysburg Review, Washingtonian, The Sun, the Washington Post Magazine, and others. Awards include a Pushcart Prize in 2020 and the 2020 Creative Arts Prize from the Polish American Historical Association. Organizations awarding fellowships include the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Virginia Center for the Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Hambidge Center, and Hawthornden International Retreat at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland.