# Sarah Layden > Author, teacher, speaker ## Posts - [coming soon](https://sarahlayden.com/?p=1): New website in progress! Check back for updates. ## Pages - [For Agents & Editors](https://sarahlayden.com/?page_id=253): Solicit a Query from Sarah Layden It’s like Manuscript Wishlist, but different! The bots found my handy query solicitation form and spammed me. Clankers ruin everything. But I still have new work to share, so please reach out to salayden (at) gmail (dot) com if you’d like to receive a query from me in any/all of the following spaces: –Literary/upmarket novel (book of my heart, infertility and reproductive rights, class, film/identity, multi-POV) –Nonfiction book proposal (another book of my heart, true crime, grief and illness, archival research, genealogy, family secrets, narrative nonfiction) -YA novel (Ok fine they are all books […] - [Events](https://sarahlayden.com/?page_id=138): 2025 Fall Medium Day, “Write on Time,” September 19, 11:30 AM EDT Indiana Writers Center Gathering of Writers, September 27 Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest, “Reimagining the Real,” October 11, 1 p.m. EDT (book signing to follow) Lit Youngstown, October 16-18 Indiana Library Foundation Conference, “Hoosier Authors Roundtable,” Nov. 10, 4 p.m. Author reading: Melissa Fraterrigo with Sarah Layden, Indy Reads Books, Nov. 15, 5-7 p.m. Spring March 13, 20, 27, & Apr. 4: Fiction Workshop through Indiana Writers Center June 11-13: NonfictioNOW Conference, University of Notre Dame 2024 Fall Sept. 7: Beyond the Book Festival, Starke County Public Library, […] - [Contact](https://sarahlayden.com/?page_id=133): Please get in touch to discuss speaking engagements, class visits, workshops, book clubs, and more. Agents and editors, feel free to email me, or use my query solicitation form here: For Agents & Editors salayden (at) gmail (dot) com - [Books](https://sarahlayden.com/?page_id=131): Imagine Your Life Like This The Invisible Art of Literary Editing  The Story I Tell Myself About Myself  Trip Through Your Wires Imagine Your Life Like ThisStoriesUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 2023 Order from Bookshop |​ Barnes & Noble | Amazon​ Imagine Your Life Like This was named to the Indiana Authors Awards Fiction Shortlist, and honored with an Outstanding Achievement Award in Fiction by the Wisconsin Library Association “Reading these stories is a deeply participatory experience. Layden’s storytelling invites us to be witnesses rather than mere observers. Indeed, it’s easy to forget that we are reading and find ourselves living with the characters.”—Kathryn Ludwig, Indiana Authors Awards Book […] - [About](https://sarahlayden.com/?page_id=107): 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 […] - [Links](https://sarahlayden.com/?page_id=105): early fan mail FEATURED “I Asked ChatGPT for a New Skin Care Regime, and Now My Pores Are Invading Saint-Tropez,” Slackjaw “Midlife Invisibility Poncho for Sale,” The Belladonna Comedy “Unfriend Me Now,” Muse & Fury Lit “I Will Trample Your Freedom By Getting IVF Treatments,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency SELECTED WRITING Fiction “Legacy Contact,” failbetter.com “Where Light Can’t Reach,” upstreet Magazine  “Gone for Good,” Sycamore Review “The World in its Entirety an Open Door,” Necessary Fiction “Nothing and Nobody,” Blackbird “Bad Enough With Genghis Khan,” Boston Review “Decoy,” failbetter.com “Resuscitation,” Blackbird “13 Things Your Mail Carrier Won’t Tell You,” Booth “The Woman Who Was a House,” PANK Essays & Journalism “Reading in […] - [Sarah Layden](https://sarahlayden.com/): Author, Teacher, Speaker “Layden’s soaring themes encompass the full range of what it means to be human.” -Elizabeth Smith for Necessary Fiction Order from Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Amazon GoodreadsIndiana Authors Awards Fiction Shortlist Outstanding Achievement Award in Fiction, Wisconsin Library Association website under construction (as are we all) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)