L. Vocem's work has been published recently in River Styx, Sequestrum, Bellingham, and Saranac Reviews. Other works have appeared in, Tint Journal, Acéntos, Westchester, Tulane, riverSedge, Litro, Carve, Zoetrope and others.

His novel The Air Beneath Her Feet is the 2025 PEN/America Bare Life Review Grant Winner and looking for a publisher. Other works have received the 2023 Rash Award Finalist, 2020 Raymond Carver Editor’s Choice Award, 2018 Ernest Hemingway Prize Finalist , and 2018 London Magazine’s  Short Story Prize Shortlist.

He lives in Johns Creek, Georgia. Read more at https://lvocem.com