Lin Ostler and Shena McAuliffe will read from the writings
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday May 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Lin Ostler and Shena McAuliffe will read from their works for the City
Art Reading Series on May 4th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Library’s Main
Branch.
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Shena McAuliffe is a fiction writer and essayist. Her stories have been
published or are forthcoming in Conjunctions, Alaska Quarterly Review, Black
Warrior Review, Land-Grant College Review, PANK, and elsewhere. She has an MFA
from Washington University in St. Louis and currently lives in Salt Lake City,
where she is a PhD candidate and Vice-presidential Fellow at the University of
Utah. Among other things, she aims at cluttering her life with bicycles and
tasty food.
Since she spearheaded the first literary magazine--Satori-- at her first
college, Lin has been the engaged in writing, reading and sharing poetry. With a
fresh B.A. degree in English and French, she taught literature in Edmonton,
Alberta for a while, helped establish Marmalade Hill “free” school in Salt Lake
City, taught in a college in Vermont, and has guided writers’ workshops through
various agencies of Utah Arts, all the while being a Yoga Instructor for nearly
40 years, a mother for nearly 30.
Lin’s work has been danced, manifest and incorporated into multi-cultural
collaborations such as “Moving the Stone” and “Emergents--Tracks in the
Motherline” since her initial award-winning poem--Woman, the Pioneer--
illustrating a dance piece in 1971. An attempt at a three-genre 24 hour entry
recently (2010) won the Iron Pen Marathon , a place where she has also come in
second, as she did in the 1995 Utah Arts Original Writing and Utah Art
Festival’s 2008 Iron Pen poetry competition.
Lin notes the recurrence of this pattern in her life so frequently, she’s
considering titling her memoir--All of Me: Coming in Second.
George Jisho Robertson of London says of Lin’s poetry:
This is the authentic voice of being alive... it inspires with its lived
particularity and lucidly involved detachment - truly from the Apex embracing
the senses and creative intelligence. Your feeling for the texture and sound of
words is elegant and moving. You are a true poet.The event is free and open to
the public. 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.
The event is free and open to the public. 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.
Joel Long
