Guest author provides online reading
CHADRON – The Sandhills Road Trip Writer’s Residency recipient, Leslie Pietrzyk, who was scheduled to give a reading at 91ÇÑ×Ó March 18, but had to cancel due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has provided the 91ÇÑ×Ó community a virtual reading.
The residency was a partnership with 91ÇÑ×Ó, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Society, according to Associate Professor Dr. Steve Coughlin with 91ÇÑ×Ó’s Creative Writing Program. The residency included a reading by Pietrzyk at the University of Nebraska at Kearney as well as a road trip writing residency through Nebraska’s Sandhills.
“Leslie is quite an accomplished writer and the piece she reads blurs the boundaries between fiction and creative nonfiction, so I think students would benefit from watching the reading and considering how we define genre, as well as possible limitations of genre distinctions,” Coughlin said.
Pietrzyk is the author of the novel “Silver Girl” and the collection of linked short stories, “This Angel on My Chest,” winner of the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the 16 best story collections of the year. Her other novels include “Pears on a Willow Tree” and “A Year and a Day.”
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