For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Franklin Fisher and Michael Gillsto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 12th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Franklin Fisher and Michael Gills will read from their work on Wednesday December 12th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Franklin Fisher is a writer and musician living in Salt Lake City. He has published fiction in a bunch of literary magazines including Prism International, the Missouri Review, Event, New Letters, Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Confrontation, and others. He has also published a novel, Bones. Michael Gills’ first collection of short fiction, Why I Lie, was published by University of Nevada Press in 2002. It won a Utah Book Prize, was a finalist for the Arkansas’ Porter Prize and was chosen as a top literary debut by The Southern Review. A second collection, The Death of Bonnie and Clyde, will be out from Texas Review Press in October, the title story of which just won Southern Humanities Review’s Hoepfner Prize for the best story published there in 2010. A novel, Go Love, will be published this fall by Raw Dog Screaming Press. A third collection of stories, Eternally Yours, is currently on the market. Gills has published more than forty short stories, received 25 Pushcart nominations, appeared in multiple Best of the South publications and held the Randall Jarrell Fellowship at the University of North Carolina. Gills holds additional degrees from the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah where he earned the Ph.D. His fiction is forthcoming in New Madrid, Boulevard and The Texas Review. Other stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, Quarterly West, The Oxford American, Salt Hill, The Chattahoochee Review, Southern Humanities Review, McSweeney’s, Verb, New York Stories, New Stories From The South and elsewhere. A Utah Established Artist grant recipient, Gills is currently Associate Professor/Lecturer of writing and core faculty for the Honors College at the University of Utah. 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. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 14 Michael Sowder Jennifer Sinor 20 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 Michael Gills Franklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English 23 Rachel Marston Craig Dworkin February 6 Michael Kroesche 20 Sadie Hoagland April 3 Matt Mauch Greg Brownderville 17 Hilda Raz Aaron Raz Link May 15 High School Night June 5 Final Open Reading