City Art Presents Ashley Farmer and Karin Anderson
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday January 16th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
Writers Karin Anderson and Ashley Farmer will read from their works on Wednesday, January 16th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Professor of English at Utah Valley University, Karin Anderson teaches creative nonfiction writing and literature, literary theory, and composition. Her work has been published in Dialogue, Sunstone, Quarter After Eight, Western Humanities Review, Saranac Review, American Literary Review, anthologized with Signature Books and University Readers. She says that she writes narrative and experimental nonfiction, usually about falling airplanes, dead or otherwise inaccessible relatives, uncanny children, family glimmers, temporal collisions on western landscapes.
Ashley Farmer is the author of a chapbook and three books, most recently The Women (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). Her work has been published in places like TriQuarterly, The Progressive, Santa Monica Review, Buzzfeed, Flaunt, Nerve, Potomac Review, Gigantic, Salt Hill Journal, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of Ninth Letter's 2018 Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Review's 2017 Short Fiction Award, and fellowships from Syracuse University and the Baltic Writing Residency. Ashley lives in Salt Lake City, UT where she's writing a memoir about California, grief, and the effects of gun violence on her family.
Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
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.
Joel Long
