I am surprised that you didn’t find references to the two components that you need. These are both extremely common.
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$query = new WP_Query(
array (
'author' => $current_user->ID,
'posts_per_page' => 1,
'post_status' => array('any'),
)
);
var_dump($query); // debug
Reference:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_current_user
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query