Leslie Pietrzyk
 Leslie Pietrzyk is an American author who has published two novels Pears on a Willow Tree and A Year and a Day. Her short fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review The Iowa Review New England Review The Sun 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.