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	Trip Through Your Wires 3.87 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Microfiction 2020 by Meg Pokrass (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gary Fincke (Editor), Michael Martone (Editor) 4.52 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imagine Your Life Like This 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story I Tell Myself About Myself 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invisible Art of Literary Editing, The by Bryan Furuness (Goodreads Author), Sarah Layden (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welcome to the Neighborhood: An Anthology of American Coexistence by Sarah Green (Editor), Chrstine Schutt (contributor), Sarah Layden (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	24 Bar Blues: Two Dozen Tales of Bars, Booze, and the Blues by Andrew Scott (Editor), Lee K. Abbott (Goodreads Author), Rusty Barnes (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Happy summer to all who celebrate! Very excited to share that the audiobook version of my story collection, Imagine Your Life Like This, will be released on June 30. Published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2023, Imagine Your Life Like This was shortlisted for the 2024 Indiana Authors Award for Fiction and honored by the Wisconsin Library Association with an Outstanding

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