For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Brian Kubaycz and Pamela Balluck 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. Writers Brian Kubarycz and Pamela Balluck will read from their works on Wednesday May 1st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Brian Kubarycz teaches Intellectual Traditions for the Honors College at the University of Utah. His writing has appeared in The Quarterly, Puerto Del Sol, Black Warrior Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Unsaid, New York Tyrant, Gigantic, PANK, and other literary venues. More recently, Brian has begun to write songs and play guitar with a musical project, Totem and Taboo. They are currently involved in the project "Of Meat and Marrow," a year-long collaboration with the Stephen Brown Dance Company. The two will be performing together at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center on Saturday, June 15. Totem & Taboo will be performing as a rock band without dancers at The Utah Arts Festival, on Sunday, June 23, at 2pm. Pamela Balluck—in another life, a struggling screenwriter, a Hollywood temp, and talent agent—earned her M.F.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Utah, where she currently teaches writing as an associate instructor. Her fiction has won her various publication prizes, including the Competition for Utah Writers, and non-publication prizes such as a month-long, summer 2010 residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her creative writing has appeared in the Western Humanities Review, The Southeast Review, [PANK], Freight Stories, Barrow Street, The Ocean State Review, New World Writing, among others, and has recently been anthologized in Curbside Splendor’s multi-genre coffee-table book, The Way We Sleep. 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 15 High School Night June 5 Final Open Reading Joel Long