For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Lynn Kilpatrick and Rob Carney to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 1st, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writer Lynn Kilpatrick and Poet Rob Carney will read from their works on Wednesday May 8th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Lynn Kilpatrick’s essay, “OC/D” was published in the latest issue of Creative Nonfiction. Other essays have appeared in Ninth Letter and Brevity. Her short story collection, In the House, was published by FC2. Her fiction has recently appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and Hotel Amerika. She earned a PhD from the University of Utah, and teaches at Salt Lake Community College. She lives with her husband and son and German Shorthaired Pointer in Salt Lake City, She is currently working on an untitled YA novel and a collection of essays called The Idaho Chronicles. An exhibit of her prose sonnets and blind drawings by John Sproul is currently on display at the downtown branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library. Rob Carney is originally from Washington state. He earned a BA in English from Pacific Lutheran University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University before moving to south Louisiana to complete his PhD. He is the author of three books and three chapbooks of poems, most recently Story Problems (Somondoco Press 2011) and Home Appraisals (Plan B Press 2012). He is a two-time recipient of the Utah Book Award for Poetry, winner of the Pinyon Press National Poetry Book Award, and has been interviewed on National Public Radio’s “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress.” His work has appeared in Mid-American Review, Quarterly West, Redactions, Sugar House Review, Weber—The Contemporary West, Cave Wall, and dozens of other journals, as well as the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). He is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City. 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. April 3 Matt Mauch Greg Brownderville 8th (Special Monday Reading at the Art Barn) Kate Greenstreet Janet Holmes10 Dawn Lonsinger Tasha Matsumoto 17 Hilda Raz Aaron Raz Link May 1 Brian Kubarycz Pamela Balluck 8 Lynn Kilpatrick Rob Carney 15 High School Night June 5 Final Open Reading Joel Long