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Sarah Layden

Sarah Layden is the author of Imagine Your Life Like This, stories; Trip Through Your Wires, a novel; and The Story I Tell Myself About Myself, a flash fiction chapbook. She is co-author with Bryan Furuness of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing. Her writing appears in The Washington Post, Salon, The Belladonna, and elsewhere. She teaches at Indiana University Indianapolis. Find her at sarahlayden.com.

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