ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City Art Presents Lance Olsen, LindseyDrager, and Michael Mejia Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 2nd 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lance Olsen, Lindsey Drager, and Michael Mejiafrom the fiction faculty of the University ofUtah's Creative Writing program will read from their work on October 2ndat the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. LanceOlsen is author of more than 25 books of andabout innovative writing, including, most recently, the novels Dreamlives ofDebris (Dzanc, 2017) and My Red Heaven (Dzanc, forthcoming 2020). His shortstories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals andanthologies, such as Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International,Village Voice, BOMB, McSweeney’s, and Best American Non-Required Reading. AGuggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, N.E.A.Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, as well as a Fulbright Scholar, heteaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah. Lindsey Drager is the author of The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015),winner of the 2016 Binghamton University / John Gardner Fiction Award, and TheLost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017), winner of a 2017 Shirley Jackson Awardand finalist for at Lambda Literary Award, and The Archive of AlternateEndings, which is forthcoming from Dzanc Books. She was an assistant professorat the College of Charleston and recently joined the creative writing facultyat the University of Utah. Michael Mejia is the author of the novels TOKYO and Forgetfulness,and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies.A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and theLudwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is editor-in-chief of Western HumanitiesReview, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and a professor of English at theUniversity of Utah, in Salt Lake City, where he lives with his wife and theirJack Russell Terrier. This event is made possible with support fromCity Art and Utah Humanities. Most featured readingsare followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Theevent 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 audiencedonations. Joel Long