Kirsten Jorgenson is from Salt Lake City, UT via Chicago, IL. She is the author of two chapbooks, Deseret and Accidents of Distance, and co-author of the poetics chapbook, Country Music. Her work can be found in or is forthcoming from The AndNow Awards, Blazevox, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Drunken Boat, Dusie, Horse Less Review, Keyhole, Sidebrow and We Are So Happy To Know Something. She has an MA in British and American Literature from the University of Utah and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. Along with Nathan Hauke, she is co-editor of Ark Press and co-curator of the Ark Press Summer Reading Series.

Nathan Hauke was born and raised in rural Michigan. His first book, In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes, was published by Publication Studio. He is also the author of chapbooks: Honeybabe, Don’t Leave Me Now, S E W N, and In the Living Room. His poetry has most recently been published in American Letters & Commentary, Dusie, Peaches and Bats, Real Poetik, Spittoon, Typo, and We Are So Happy To Know Something. Two of his poems, “Deerfield (1)” and “A Surface. A Shore or Semi-transparency of Glass,” were selected to be a part of The Arcadia Project Anthology edited by GC Waldrep and Joshua Corey.

Rob Carney is originally from Washington State. He is a two-time winner of the Utah Book Award for Poetry and the author of three previous books and three chapbooks of poems, including Story Problems and Weather Report. His work has appeared in many journals as well as the Norton anthology, Flash Fiction Forward. 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 Lake City. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City Public Library.