SARAH LAYDEN
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Sarah Layden is the author of Imagine Your Life Like This (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), The Story I Tell Myself About Myself, winner of the 2017 Sonder Press Chapbook Competition, and Trip Through Your Wires (Engine Books, 2015), a novel. The Invisible Art of Literary Editing, a textbook coauthored with Bryan Furuness, will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2023. Her short fiction can be found in Boston Review, Stone Canoe, Blackbird, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the anthologies Best Microfiction 2020, Welcome to the Neighborhood, and Sudden Flash Youth, and elsewhere. Her recent nonfiction work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poets & Writers, Salon, River Teeth, The Millions, The Humanist, and Indianapolis Monthly. 

She earned a B.S. in journalism from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and an MFA in fiction writing from Purdue University. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
   

                                                         

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Layden's affection for talking about herself in the third person stretches back to Myspace, Friendster, and early Facebook, as well as a totally and completely non-autobiographical detective story she wrote in sixth grade, entitled "Sarah Sleuth." (Narrator: She was never a detective. Just a snoop. And who doesn't enjoy relaxing in a thick recliner after getting back from the last case?)

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  • About
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  • Contact
  • Book Groups
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  • The Invisible Art of Literary Editing
  • The Story I Tell Myself About Myself
  • Trip Through Your Wires
  • In Progress
  • Blog
  • Screenplay