Laura Sisk

BLOOMINGTON — When the Grammy Award for Album of the Year was announced Feb. 15 in Los Angeles, a certain Indiana University alumna might have been holding her breath.

Laura Sisk, a 2010 graduate of the Jacobs School of Music, was nominated for her engineering work on Taylor Swift’s smash pop release “1989.”

The prestigious Album of the Year category recognizes an entire collection of songs and the team behind it, including not only the artist but producers, recording engineers and mastering engineers.

At the end of the night, both Swift and Sisk walked away as winners.

Sisk engineered three songs on “1989”: “I Wish You Would,” “Out of the Woods” and the bonus track “You Are in Love,” which appears on some versions of the album. The songs were a collaboration between Swift and Jack Antonoff, a musician known for his own bands, Bleachers and Fun.

“Jack and I were in one studio and Taylor in another during ‘Out of the Woods,’” Sisk said. “They would send voice memos back and forth with ideas for parts, and a lot of the writing and recording were happening simultaneously. They are both wildly talented, and the songs came together in no time.”

Swift opened the awards broadcast with a performance of “Out of the Woods.” Out of seven nominations, Swift also took home Grammys for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Music Video for “Bad Blood.”