AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS:
2007 Caldwell Literary Awards - Third Place for "Balance" - poetry, October 2007.
"Lucidity" Honorable Mention Juried Selection for "A-Frames" Vol. 21, - poetry, summer 2006.
"Poetry Patchwork" 2005 Poetry Contest Winner for "Attracting Lightning" - poetry, 2005.
Gin Bender Review Poetry Contest - Third Place for "To Napoleon Sarony Regarding
Oscar Wilde, Portrait No. 18" - poetry, 2004.
Muses Review 1st Muses Prize - Best Poem Chap of Year 2004 for "Hemlock
Suicides Planned by Well-Dressed Men in Suits"- poetry, 2004.
Pushcart Prize nomination for "Painting Apples" - fiction
- 2003. Finalist for "Cellar": North Carolina State
University Poetry Contest - 2003. Third Place for
"Unresponsive Sky": Balticon36 Sci-Fi Poetry Contest with
"Lite: Baltimore's Literary Newspaper" - 2002. Pushcart Prize
nomination for "Monkey Bars" - poetry - 2002. Poetry Super Highway Poet of the
Week - June 2002. Anne B. Cooke Memorial Award
for "The Firefly Dance": Bell's Letters - 2000. LB is
listed as a Poet and Fiction Writer in "Poets & Writers" Magazine's
"Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers"
LB Sedlacek Directory Listing
POETRY PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE:
3LIGHTS,
42Opus,
Adagio Verse Quarterly,
Andwerve,
Anthology,
AntiMuse,
Aoife's Kiss,
ART:MAG,
Ascent Aspirations,
Backstreet Poets,
Bear Creek Haiku,
Bent Pin Quarterly,
Between Kisses,
Book Lover's Haven,
Caduta Arts Review,
Circle Magazine,
Dispatch,
Down in the Cellar,
Edgar Literary Magazine,
ESC! Magazine,
Fables,
Facets Magazine,
Footprints,
Free Verse,
FutureCycle,
Ghoti,
Ginosko,
Gloom Cupboard,
Grit,
Hadrasour Tales,
HazMat Review,
Heritage Writer,
I-70 Review,
Illumen,
Inkburns,
InSpirit,
Iodine,
Kota Press,
Lite,
Literary Spot,
New Works Review,
Niederngasse,
Open Cut,
Open Mouse,
Opinion Guy Speculative Fiction,
Passport Journal,
Perigee,
PKA's Advocate,
Poesia,
Poet's Canvas,
Poetry Life & Times,
Poetry Monthly,
Poetry RePairs,
Raskolnikov's Cellar,
Red Owl Magazine,
Red River Review,
Re)Verb,
Scribe and Quill,
sidereality,
Song of the Siren,
Spiky Palm,
Starry Night Review Literary E-zine,
Strange Road,
Stray Dog,
Superior Christian News,
T-Zero The Writer's Ezine,
Tales of the Talisman,
Texas Poetry Journal,
The Aroostook Review,
The Artemis Journal,
The Blind Man's Rainbow,
The Brown Critique,
The Foliate Oak,
The Fossil Record,
The Horsethief's Journal,
The Hurricane Review,
The King's English,
The Oak,
The Paumanok Review,
The Sidewalk's End,
The Time Garden,
The Sigurd Journal,
Transparent Words,
Ultraverse,
Ygdrasil,
Wild Goose Poetry Review,
Wisteria (A Journal of Haiku, Senryu & Tanka),
Word Riot,
Would That It Were,
X Magazine, and
Xtreme.
ARTICLE / SHORT FICTION PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE:
4indianwoman.com,
Ascent Magazine,
Bovine Free Wyoming,
Cenotaph,
Duct Tape Press,
ESC! Magazine,
Fluffy Fables,
Legions of Light,
Monarch Mysteries,
Nuvein Magazine,
Skive Magazine,
Silver Moon,
SouthLit.com,
Southern Hum,
The Drabblecast,
The Outer Rim,
The Real Eight,
The Unlikely Unknown,
and Write Success.
POETRY CHAPBOOKS, ANTHOLOGIES & BOOKS: "Alexandra's Wreck"
(Kitty Litter Press), "...after Graceland," (Pop Poets Press) "The Cat and the
Carroll A. Deering and Other North Carolina Poems" (Pop Poets Press),
Suicide Pumpkins (2000 - Fiction) (ISBN: 0738833819), Anthology: "The Best of The Foliate
Oak Online - 2003" (poem "Porcupine Rain"), Anthology: "The Best of The Foliate Oak Online
- 2004" (poem "When Ed MacMahon Hands Out Checks"), "Hemlock Suicides Planned
by Well-Dressed Men in Suits" (Assume Nothing Press), "Average Bears" (Assume
Nothing Press), "Red Headed Eskimos" (Assume Nothing Press).
POETRY REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS: Strangeroad.com,
AbsoluteArts.com (S. Mead), Outsider Writers, Favours2U, Absolute Write,
The Poetry Market Ezine, All Info About Poetry, Map of Austin Poetry.
EDUCATION:
B.A. and M.A.
LAST NAME PRONUNCIATION: said - LA (it's lah, not luh) -
check, or just give it up PLEASE and call me LB.
WHY EXACTLY DO YOU WRITE USING YOUR INITIALS?:
The last name isn't bad enough? It's easier just to use LB.
Really!
QUOTES:"It's hard to make a comeback
when you haven't been anywhere." (Written in the dust
on the back of a bus, Wickenburg, AZ) "If you're looking for
me, I just left."