Writers Karen Subach and Wayne Johnson will read from their work October 1st at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Karen Subach was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Oxford University (where she read Anglo-Saxon as a Thouron Scholar), and the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her poems have appeared in THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, BIRMINGHAM REVIEW, CIMARRON REVIEW, CUTBANK, FOLIO, HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW, THE LAUREL REVIEW, NEW LETTERS, THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, and other publications. Karen has been a resident at Yaddo and a scholar for the Poets in Person series. Her poetry manuscript, INTO THE MIRROR, has been a finalist in national contests including the Walt Whitman, WordWorks, and Yale Younger Poets series. Last summer the prologue of her novel, DIVINE PROVIDENCE, was runner-up in THE ROANOKE REVIEW'S national fiction contest. She is a medievalist with a background in languages, and she has been on the faculty of a number of institutions, most recently Westminster College. Karen has
taught for the Summer Writing Festival in Iowa City since 1988 and is delighted to have settled in beautiful Utah.
Wayne D. Johnson (M.F.A., The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop) is a recipient of an O. Henry Award, a Transatlantic Review award, a Teaching-Writing Fellowship from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Story, and other magazines, as well as in various anthologies. Johnson’s first novel, The Snake Game, was a London Times Bestseller. Don’t Think Twice was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Six Crooked Highways chosen as a “Booksellers Summer Bestseller.” His latest novel, The Devil You Know, was released in 2004. Johnson has been a Chesterfield Film Fellow in Hollywood and has projects with major and independent studios. His most recent book, White Heat: The Extreme Skiing Life, was released by Simon and Schuster in December 2007; a book on motorcycling is to follow.
City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.
