L B Gschwandtner is married, the mother of three daughters, a writer, magazine editor, artist, and co-owner with her husband of an integrated media business. She has received prizes from two Writer's Digest Writing Competitions, one from The Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, and one of her stories was short listed by the Tom Howard Short Story Contest. Her work has appeared in various journals including Del Sol Review and a prose poem has been included in the anthology "Oil and Water and Other things That Don't Mix." She is the founder of TheNovelette.com, which offers no-fee, themed,