Bio

B. Pietras (he/they) is a writer with essays in Creative Nonfiction, BuzzFeed Reader, Literary Hub, TriQuarterly, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.

He is currently at work on a nonfiction book about what the last five hundred years of queer history can teach us about how to live a meaningful life without marriage or children.

Contact

pietrasb [at] gmail [dot] com

Essays

“Queering the Victorians: On Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Flint Anchor,” Literary Hub (forthcoming).

“Alchemy on the Runway,” Avidly, August 16, 2022. 

“Seeking a Connection to My Grandmother in Alice Munro’s Queer Characters,” Literary Hub, May 25, 2021.

“Secret Museums,” Creative Nonfiction, Issue 70 (Summer 2019).

• Runner-up, Best Essay Prize.

• Featured on Longreads, April 27, 2020.

• Featured in Creative Nonfiction’s 75th Issue, “Celebrating a Milestone” (Spring 2021).

“Both and Yet Neither,” TriQuarterly, Issue 154 (Summer/Fall 2018).

“What a Cross-Dressing Lady Knight Taught Me about Gender and Sexuality,” Electric Literature, December 11, 2017.

“Hating Britney,” Buzzfeed Reader, November 26, 2016.

“A Queer History of Relics,” Catapult, August 31, 2016.