B. Pietras

B. Pietras is a writer with essays in Creative Nonfiction, TriQuarterly, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. They are currently at work on a book about what the last five hundred years of queer history can teach us about living a meaningful life. You can find him online at bpietras.com and on Twitter @reliqueery.

A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

B. Pietras on Queering “Flint Anchor,” LGBTQ Historical Stories, and Finding the Present in the Past

June 10, 2025 By B. Pietras

Seeking a Connection to My Grandmother in Alice Munro’s Queer Characters

B. Pietras on the Old Women and Queer Men of Munro’s Fiction

May 26, 2021 By B. Pietras

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