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i'm LC. i love jesus christ. i love my high-school sweetheart husband. i love our babies. i like knitting and stacks of books and folding paper birds and making dinner.

i write short fiction.
-2011 Carve Magazine, Raymond Carver Short Story Contest Editor's Choice: Whiskey & Ribbons
-The Rumpus, Readers Report Back From Wants/Needs, February 2011: Excerpt from And It Can Never Be Too Dark or Too Bright
-Storychord Issue #25, February 2011: And It Can Never Be Too Dark or Too Bright
-Bluestem Magazine, September 2011: Sinnerman
-The Blind Hem, January 2012: Fashion/Fiction: Excerpts from Sinnerman
-Word Riot, January 2012: Russian Women Stuff
-Little Fiction, February 2012: In This Room Where We Practice Dying Every Night
-matchbook, February 2012: Five Sketches of a Story About Death


i also like nerdy things/anything awesome. i'm a stay-home mama aaand i don't need much else. (except coffee.)

& i believe in baking as therapy. i believe in eating from my own garden.

i also believe in & love: haberdashery, dave matthews band, the avett brothers, kings of leon, banjo music, cardigan sweaters, singing & playing ukulele & guitar & banjo, Americana, old-timey things, the country, the mountains, flannel, hilarity, books, cooking & food & farming & basically anything that is awesome.

tumblr: brightlywound.
writing tumblr: leesacrosssmith.tumblr.com.

(most of my photos are private. but if you got here b/c i favorited one of yours, hello! there was something abt yr photo that made me feel sorta awesome and i love it. (FOR EXAMPLE: avett bros, banjos, rain, dmb, bokeh, haberdashery, knitting, fooood) so, thank you. and if you wanna msg me to make sure i'm not a total creep, feel free. that's what i would prolly do. that's why i made most of my photos private in the first place. yes!)