This is my last public reading of the fall...please stop by!
Reading: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2015
2PM ~ 4PM
Leslie Pietrzyk and Jehanne Dubrow
Hosted by The Writer's Center
4508 Walsh St, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815
Leslie Pietrzyk reads from her collection of short stories, This Angel on My Chest. She is joined by
Jehanne Dubrow, author of The Arranged
Marriage, a collection of prose poems. The reading will be followed by a
reception and book signing. Free admission.
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of five poetry collections,
including most recently The Arranged
Marriage (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), Red Army Red (Northwestern University Press, 2012), and Stateside (Northwestern University
Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in Virginia
Quarterly Review, The New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Hudson Review. She is the Director of
the Rose O’Neill Literary House and an Associate Professor of creative writing
at Washington College, where she edits the national literary journal, Cherry Tree.
Leslie Pietrzyk is the author of two novels, Pears on a Willow Tree (Avon Books) and A Year and a Day (William Morrow) and a
collection of short stories, This Angel
on My Chest, which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her short fiction
has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, and The Sun magazine. Her work has been
nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she has won a number of writing awards,
including Shenandoah’s Jean Charpiot
Goodheart Prize for Fiction. She teaches at the Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic
Program’s graduate writing program, the Writer’s Center, and Converse College’s
low-residency MFA program.