"Like their namesake, the stories populating Trip Wires are mercilessly taut. Told largely from the perspectives of youths torn from their roots by war, these are stories that carry like radio signals across terrains of unrest and displacement. Ms. Hunter's juxtaposition of settings—Afghanistan, then Los Angeles; Syria, then again to the city of angels—heightens the immigrant's sense of diasporic otherness in places both near and far from home. This is what life looks like when conflict repaints the canvas against which her characters seek love, family and a moment's stability. Her keen eye for twinned details—the fleeting safety of an imam's lap is set against a prayer rug in the back room of a California suburban home, far from neighbors' eyes—lends this collection a rare power and poignancy. Not to be missed." — David Rocklin, The Luminist Blurbs pending from: Jean Hegland (Into the) Shilpa Agarwal (Haunting Bombay) Peg Alford Pursell (Why There Are Words) Nimrod International Journal Matthew Limpede, executive director of Carve magazine

Sandra Hunter's fiction received the 2016 Gold Line Press Chapbook Prize, October 2014 Africa Book Club Award, 2014 H.E. Francis Fiction Award, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She placed second in the 2017 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, received a 2017 MacDowell Fellowship and was a 2016 finalist for the Bridport Prize. Books: Debut novel, LOSING TOUCH (2014), fiction chapbook, SMALL CHANGE (2016). She is a professor of creative writing and English at Moorpark College. Author awards: 2017 Katherine Anne Porter Prize, 2nd place 2017 Bosque Fiction Prize, finalist 2016 New England Book Festival, honorable mention 2016 Bridport Prize, short list 2016 The Cupboard Pamphlet Competition, finalist 2016 Curt Johnson Prose Award, finalist 2016 Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition, winner 2015 Lascaux Prize, semi-finalist 2015 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize (short story collection), semi-finalist 2014 Tucson Book Festival, Literary Awards, finalist 2014 Africa Book Club, winner 2014 Nelson Algren Short Story Contest, finalist 2014 H.E. Francis Short Story Competition, winner 2013 Carve Magazine, Pushcart Prize nomination 2013 Women�s Domination Story Competition, Egypt, winner 2013 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction prize, finalist 2013 SLS-Kenya Contest, finalist

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