For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City Art Presents Lance Olsen and Sara Eliza Johnson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 5th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lance Olsen and Sara Eliza Johnson will read from their work on February 5th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. LANCE OLSEN is author of more than 20 books of and about innovative writing, including three that will appear this month: the novel based on Robert Smithson's earthwork the Spiral Jetty, Theories of Forgetting; How to Unfeel the Dead: New & Selected Fictions; and [[ there. ]], a trash-diary meditation on the confluence of travel, curiosity, and aesthetic/existential experimentation. His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, such as Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, Village Voice, BOMB, McSweeney’s and Best American Non-Required Reading. A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, as well Fulbright Scholar, he teaches at the University of Utah and serves as chair of the Board of Directors at the independent press Fiction Collective Two, now in its 40th year making fiction making trouble. Sara Eliza Johnson's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the New England Review, the Best New Poets anthology, Boston Review, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of several honors, including a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and a Winter Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her first book, Bone Map, was selected for the 2013 National Poetry Series and will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2014.. 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