Admit This to No One: Collected Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781951213411)

Leslie Pietrzyk is the author of the novel Silver Girl, released in 2018 by Unnamed Press, and called "profound, mesmerizing, and disturbing" in a Publishers Weekly starred review. 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. Kirkus Reviews named it one of the 16 best story collections of the year, Her previous novels are Pears on a Willow Tree and A Year and a Day. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in many places. Pietrzyk is a member of the core fiction faculty at the Converse low-residency MFA program and often teaches in the MA Program in Writing at Johns Hopkins University. Raised in Iowa, she now lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Website: www.lesliepietrzyk.com