ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com KirstenJorgenson and Nathan Hauketoread at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 7, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Kristen Jorgenson and Nathan Hauke will read from their works on Wednesday, October 7that 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event isfree and open to the public. Kirsten Jorgenson is from Salt Lake City, UT via Chicago, IL. Sheis the author of two chapbooks, Deseretand Accidents of Distance, andco-author of the poetics chapbook, Country Music. Her work can be found in oris forthcoming from The AndNow Awards, Blazevox, Denver Quarterly, Diagram,Drunken Boat, Dusie, Horse Less Review, Keyhole, Sidebrow and We Are So HappyTo Know Something. She has an MA in British and American Literature from theUniversity of Utah and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University ofAlabama. Along with Nathan Hauke, she is co-editor of Ark Press and co-curatorof the Ark Press Summer Reading Series. Nathan Hauke was born and raised inrural Michigan. His first book, In theMarble of Your Animal Eyes, was published by Publication Studio. He is alsothe author of chapbooks: Honeybabe, Don’t Leave Me Now, S E W N, and In theLiving Room. His poetry has most recently been published in American Letters& Commentary, Dusie, Peaches and Bats, Real Poetik, Spittoon, Typo, and WeAre So Happy To Know Something. Two of his poems, “Deerfield (1)” and “ASurface. A Shore or Semi-transparency of Glass,” were selected to be a part ofThe Arcadia Project Anthology edited by GC Waldrep and Joshua Corey. Rob Carney is originally from Washington State. He is a two-time winner of theUtah Book Award for Poetry and the author of three previous books and threechapbooks of poems, including Story Problems and Weather Report. His work hasappeared in many journals as well as the Norton anthology, Flash FictionForward. In 2014, he received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry.He is a professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt LakeCity. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series andprovides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs oneach of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at theSalt Lake City Public Library. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long