L.B. Sedlacek

Poet, Fiction Writer

Lenoir, NC
North Carolina US
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Author's Bio

L.B. Sedlacek is a poet, writer, and poem critic.  Her poetry books and chapbooks include "Organic Soup," "Unresponsive Sky," "Night Swim," "Swim," "Simultaneous Submissions," "Words and Bones," "The Poet Next Door," and "The Architect of French Fries."  She is also author of the short stories books "The Jackalope Committee and Other Tales" and  "Four Thieves of Vinegar & Other Short Stories."  She published “The Poetry Market E-zine,” a free monthly resource for poets for 20 years.  L.B. also created @poetryinla on FB which inspired the poetry book “Poetry in LA - Only in LA.”  She has taught poetry to elementary and middle school students.  She holds a BA in Business and a MA in Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts.  She was also Poetry Editor for “ESC! Magazine” and co-hosted the small press podcast “Coffee House to Go” with Michael Potter.  Her poems have appeared in numerous publications.  L.B. also enjoys reading, swimming and playing the ukulele.  

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthology:
Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows (Local Gems Press, 2024)
Books:
The Renovator & Motor Addiction (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
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The Jackalope Committee and Other Tales (Alien Buddha Press, 2022)
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Four Thieves of Vinegar and Other Short Stories (Alien Buddha Press, 2020)
Journals:
Adagio Verse Quarterly
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Chamber Magazine
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Circle Magazine
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Conceit Magazine
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Edgar Literary Magazine
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Hurricane Review
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Impspired
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Inkburns
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Kleksograph
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Literary House Review
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Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal
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Spillwords Press
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Sunsets and Silencers
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Talisman
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Texas Poetry Journal
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The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
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Wild Goose Poetry Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
Dawn Horizons (Local Gems Press, 2025)
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Storms of the Bard (Local Gems Press, 2025)
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A.C. PAPA #4 (Poet Plant Press, 2024)
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Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows: Poems & Stories for the Halloween Season (Local Gems Press, 2024)
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North Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology 2024 (Local Gems Poetry Press, 2024)
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Ashes to Stardust: A David Bowie Tribute Anthology (Sybaritic Press, 2023)
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North Carolina Bards 2023 (Local Gems Press, 2023)
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US 1 Worksheets Volume 68 (DVP, 2023)
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North Carolina Bards Anthology (Local Gems Poetry Press, 2022)
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North Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology (Local Gems Poetry Press, 2021)
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Inside the Box: Scars Publications 2020 poetry collection anthology (Scars Publications, 2020)
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Best of Foliate Oak Online (University of Arkansas Press, 2004)
Books:
Unresponsive Sky (Purple Unicorn Media, 2023)
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Night Swim (Alien Buddha Press, 2022)
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Ghost Policy (Cyberwit.net, 2021)
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I'm No Robot (Cyberwit.net, 2021)
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Swim (Alien Buddha Press, 2021)
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Simultaneous Submissions (Cyberwit.net, 2020)
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The Blue Eyed Side (Cyberwit.net, 2020)
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The Poet Next Door (Cyberwit.net, 2020)
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Words and Bones (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
Chapbooks:
Organic Soup (Bottlecap Press, 2024)
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The Adventures of Stick People on Cars (Alien Buddha Press, 2019)
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The Architect of French Fries (Presa Press, 2019)
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Alexandra's Wreck (Kitty Litter Press, 2002)
Journals:
Adelaide Literary Magazine
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As It Ought To Be Magazine
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Bear Creek Haiku
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Big Pulp
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Bindweed Magazine
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Cloudbank
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Connotation Press
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Copperfield Review
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Edify Fiction
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ESC! Magazine
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Fickle Muses: an online journal of myth and legend
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Folded Word
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Foliate Oak
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Gloom Cupboard
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Harbinger Asylum
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Highland Park Poetry
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Iconoclast
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Illumen
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Inspirit
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Mamazine
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Manorborn
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Mastodon Dentist
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Paumanok Review
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Poesia
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Poetic Diversity
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Poetry Kit
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Poetry Monthly
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Prolific Press
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Pure Francis
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Red River Review
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RiverLit
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Sea Stories
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Shaking Like a Mountain
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Sketchbook: A Journal for Eastern & Western Short Forms
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Skive Magazine
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Sparks of Calliope
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T-Zero
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Tertulia Magazine
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The Aroostook Review
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The Broken Plate
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The Faircloth Review
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The Whirlwind Review
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Third Wednesday
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Unlikely Stories
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Word Riot
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Prizes won: 
  • First Place Poem for "Midsole Secure" - Improptu Poetry Contest - DreamQuestOne - August 2024
  • First Place Prose for "Sight Unseen" - Branches Literary Magazine - Fiction, October 2022
  • First Place Prose for "Backwards Wink" - Branches Literary Magazine - Fiction, March 2022
  • SongBook Contest, Lone Stars Magazine - 2nd Place for “Starlight” - Poetry, March 2021.
  • The Stars That Never Shown Poetry Contest, Lone Stars Magazine - 3rd Place for "The Winter Cellar" - Poetry, April 2018. 
  • 2010 Caldwell Literary Awards - First Place for "Keep What You Catch" - Poetry, 2010
  • Caldwell Literary Awards - First Place for "Walking by Sound" - Poetry, 2008
  • Caldwell Literary Awards - First Place for "Corporeal" - Fiction, 2008
  • 2007 Caldwell Literary Awards - Third Place for "Balance" - Poetry, October 2007
  • "Lucidity" Honorable Mention Juried Selection for "A-Frames" Vol. 21, - Poetry, 2006
  • Gin Bender Review Poetry Contest - Third Place for "To Napoleon Sarony Regarding Oscar Wilde, Portrait No. 18" - Poetry, 2004

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Ted Kooser, Hart Crane, Rainer Maria Rilke, Nikki Giovanni, Tony Hillerman, Dani Shapiro, Jack Kerouac, Mary Oliver, Samantha Downing, Jay Shetty, Carl Sandburg, Poe, Teresa Driscoll, Patrick Rothfuss, Robert B Parker, Neil Gaiman
What I'm reading now: 
Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows: Poems & Stories for the Halloween Season by James P Wagner, Editor, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem by Jeremy Noel-Tod, Editor, Red Bird by Mary Oliver, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means, Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams, The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Raised in: 
NC
North Carolina
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Last update: Mar 17, 2025