Trip Wires: Stories - Paperback

by Sandra Hunter (Author)

Winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize
TRIP WIRES travels around the world, with stories, many of children, set against turbulent socio-political backdrops from Afghanistan to Syria to Columbia to America, and examines how the dilemma of isolation is a common human condition. The terrain is different in each story, but all of these young people face the dilemma of being without resources even as they try to find and maintain relationships. Accepting of tragedy and insurmountable challenges, they nonetheless show humanity and grace, and remind us of the best in ourselves.

Author Biography

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