Leslie Pietrzyk is the author of the novel Silver Girl, which Publishers Weekly called profound, mesmerizing, and disturbing, and the novels Pears on a Willow Tree and A Year and a Day. Her collection of unconventionally linked short stories, This Angel on My Chest, won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Short fiction/essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Washington Post Magazine, Salon, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Hudson Review, The Sun, Shenandoah, Arts & Letters, River Styx, Iowa Review, The Collagist, and Cincinnati Review. She is a member of the core fiction faculty of the Converse College low-residency MFA program.

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

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