L.B. Sedlacek

Author's Bio

LB Sedlacek is an award winning poet & fiction writer with works published in a variety of journals, magazines and zines. She is the author of 8 chapbooks.

Publications and Prizes

Chapbooks:

Alexandra's Wreck (Kitty Litter Press, 2002)

Anthologies:

Best of Foliate Oak Online (University of Arkansas Press, 2004)

Journals:

Adagio Verse Quarterly, Assisi Journal, Backstreet Quarterly, Bear Creek Haiku, Circle Magazine, Connotation Press, Edgar Literary Magazine, ESC! Magazine, Fickle Muses: an online journal of myth and legend, Free Verse, Gloom Cupboard, Hurricane Review, I-70 Review, Illumen, Inkburns, Inspirit, Literary House Review, Main Street Rag, Mamazine, Manorborn, Mastodon Dentist, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, Paumanok Review, Poesia, Poetry Monthly, Red River Review, Sea Stories, Sketchbook: A Journal for Eastern & Western Short Forms, Skive Magazine, Sunsets and Silencers, T-Zero, Talisman, Tertulia Magazine, Texas Poetry Journal, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Word Riot

Prizes:

2010 Caldwell Literary Awards - First Place for "Keep What You Catch" - Poetry. 2008 Caldwell Literary Awards - First Place for "Walking by Sound" - Poetry. 2008 Caldwell Literary Awards - First Place for "Corporeal" - Fiction. 2007 Caldwell Literary Awards - Third Place for "Balance" - Poetry, October 2007. "Lucidity" Honorable Mention Juried Selection for "A-Frames" Vol. 21, - Poetry, summer 2006. Gin Bender Review Poetry Contest - Third Place for "To Napoleon Sarony Regarding Oscar Wilde, Portrait No. 18" - Poetry, 2004.

L.B. Sedlacek Resume

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

My House by Nikki Giovanni, Writing Brave & Free by Ted Kooser & Steve Cox

Favorite Books:

Picturing the Wreck, Bicycles: Love Poems, Blue Screen, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Alice to Nowhere

Favorite Authors:

Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Anton Chekhov, Dani Shapiro, Rainer Maria Rilke, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diane Di Prima, Nikki Giovanni, Tony Hillerman, Lee Child, Stephen Crane, Robert B Parker

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Listing last updated: October 24, 2011

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

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