Sarah Layden is the winner of the Allen and Nirelle Galson Prize for fiction and an AWP Intro Award. TRIP THROUGH YOUR WIRES is her first novel. Her short fiction can be found in Boston Review, Stone Canoe, Blackbird, Artful Dodge, The Evansville Review, Booth, PANK, the anthology Sudden Flash Youth and elsewhere. A two-time Society of Professional Journalists award winner, her recent essays, interviews and articles have appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, The Writer's Chronicle, NUVO and The Humanist. She teaches writing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the Indiana Writers Center.