City Art Presents Ashley Farmer and Ryan Ridge

Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111

Wednesday December 21st 6:30—8:00 P.M

            Writers Ashley Farmer and Ryan Ridge will read from their work  on December 21st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. 

Ashley Farmer is the author of the essay collection Dear Damage (Sarabande Books, 2022), winner of the 2020 Series in Kentucky Literature, as well as three other books. Her work has been published in places like Gay Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Progressive, Santa Monica Review, Buzzfeed, Flaunt, Nerve, Potomac Review, Gigantic, Salt Hill Journal, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of Ninth Letter’s 2018 Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Review’s 2017 Short Fiction Award, and fellowships from Syracuse University and the Baltic Writing Residency. Ashley lives in Salt Lake City, UT with the writer Ryan Ridge. 

Ryan Ridge author of two chapbooks and five books, including the hybrid novel, American Homes (University of Michigan Press) and “New Bad (Sarabande).  His work has appeared in Tin House Flash Fridays, Mississippi Review, Potomac Review, Los Angeles Review, Lumina, Salt Hill, Santa Monica Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. In 2016, Ridge received the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction judged by Jonathan Lethem. His book, Weird Weeks, a chapbook cowritten with Mel Bosworth, won the Editors’ Prize from The Cupboard Pamphlet and will be published in the fall of 2018. He's an assistant professor at Weber State University and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He edits the literary magazine Juked. 

Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art has been sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, 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.