For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents A.J. Martine and Shen Christensen
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 8th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Shen Christensen and A.J.
Martine will read from their work on April 8th at the Salt Lake City Public
Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Shen Christensen’s fiction
has appeared in Story Quarterly, Alaskan Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry
Review, Denver Quarterly, Nebraska Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black Ridge
Review. She received an MFA from
University of Utah in 1994. Among her
award for her fictions are Story Magazine First place for short story, Atlantic
top ten finalists for short story, Chicago Magazine winner of one of two
literary awards, and the Utah Short Story Competition Second Place (the year
that Gerda Saunders won first place!) Her work also appears in The Way We Live Anthology and What There Is; The Crossroads Antholog. SHE QUIT WRITING BECAUSE IT IS TOO
HARROWING, BLOOD SUCKING, AND HARD. She started writing again about nine months
ago for her kids who are now grown up.
A.J. Martine is a
western-born man raised by a feral ranch family in southwestern Colorado, on
the Colorado Plateau. The plateau is a character, protagonist, villain, and
flinty, indifferent, but demanding lover that features in much of his
writing. In hind-sight, he says that doing things the hard way wasn't a
good business model for living but it did give him a lot of experiences to mine
for his story telling. Martine’s Fiction, Poetry, and Creative
non-fiction Published in Rocky Mountain Review, Catalyst Magazine, Salt Lake
Magazine, Outside Magazine, Wazzee Street Literary Magazine, University of
Idaho Press, and Glimmer Train Press. He
earned Awards first place from the Utah Society of Professional Journalists for
his investigative essay Tracking Dust.
He works as an
Environmental Mitigation and Mediation Consultant.
Most featured
readings are 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.