Leslie Pietrzyk


Leslie Pietrzyk is an American author who has three traditionally published novels, Pears on a Willow Tree, A Year and a Day, and Silver Girl. Her historical novel, Reversing the River, set in Chicago on the first day of 1900, was serialized on the literary app, Great Jones Street.

Career

Her short fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, New England Review, The Sun, Ploughshares, River Styx, The Washington Post Journal, TriQuarterly, and Shenandoah.
She holds a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from American University. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia and teaches in the Masters in Writing program at Johns Hopkins University as well as the Low-Res MFA program at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Pietrzyk is also the founder and editor of Redux, an online journal featuring previously published work.

Awards and honors