Leslie Pietrzyk

Bio

Leslie Pietrzyk’s collection of DC stories, Admit This To No One (Unnamed Press, November 2021) was called “insidery, insightful, and deftly executed” by Washingtonian magazine. She’s 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 and was published by University of Pittsburgh Press. Her other awards include a Pushcart Prize in 2020 and the 2020 Creative Arts Prize from the Polish American Historical Association. She recently moved to North Carolina.