An Evening with Sarah Layden

The Visiting Writers Series and English Department are thrilled to present... 

An Evening with Sarah Layden
Welsh Parlor, Haggar College Center
October 6 at 6 p.m.

The Visiting Writers Series and English Department are thrilled to present Indiana author (and Indiana Author Award fiction-finalist) Sarah Layden, who will read from her newest short story collection, Imagine Your Life Like This.

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. She is co-author with Bryan Furuness of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing (Bloomsbury Academic, 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, and Identity Theory. She is an associate professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis.

This event is generously co-sponsored by Indiana Humanities' Indiana Authors Awards Speaker Program. An audience Q&A will follow the event. Light snacks will be provided.