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Leslie PietrzykLeslie Pietrzyk is a novelist/short story writer. Most recent book: ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE, stories of DC, published by Unnamed Press (2021). THIS ANGEL ON MY CHEST (Univ of Pittsburgh Press) won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. www.lesliepietrzyk.com
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Cottonwood
I chose this issue of Cottonwood 49 at random off my shelf because I couldn’t remember which story it contained, How delightful to discover a story I’ve been thinking about lately: “To Be Like That.” I wrote this story in the waning MFA day...
The Iowa Review
I’ve been fortunate enough to see my stories in The Iowa Review several times, but today I’m focusing on my first publication there, “How to Grow Up,” which appeared in Volume 20, Number 2, in 1990.
I like this little prose poem of the wri...
The Collagist/The Rupture
Since the Sewanee Writers’ Conference recently wrapped up and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference is about to begin, I thought it would be fun to look at my story “One True Thing” that takes place at the, ahem, “MacBride Writers’ Conference”...
The Cincinnati Review
“How We Leave Home” appears in the Winter 2016 issue of The Cincinnati Review (12.2), a journal I had long yearned to appear in (and have been lucky enough to appear in now twice). It’s based at the University of Cincinnati, is helmed by a...
Spitball
Okay—it wasn’t in the act of writing “Down at the Yards” that I became a baseball fan. But this is the first story I wrote as a baseball fan, when I started following the Baltimore Orioles and their star shortstop-eventually-turned-third-ba...
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Novelist/short story writer. Most recent book: ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE, stories of DC, published by Unnamed Press (2021). THIS ANGEL ON MY CHEST (University of Pittsburgh Press) won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. www.lesliepietrzyk.com
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