Gino Sky and Hector Ahumada will read from their work on Wednesday, January 5^th at the Salt Lake Public Library at 7:00 PM in the main auditorium.

 

Gino Sky was born in Pocatello, Idaho. He attended Idaho State University, the University of Copenhagen, University of Utah, and San Francisco State University. He is the author of two novels, Appaloosa Rising (Doubleday) and Coyote Silk (North Atlantic Books), 4 books of short stories including Near the Postcard Beautiful (Floating Ink Books), and 9 books of poetry including Hallelujah, Two Groundhogs & Sixteen Valentines and Spirit Bone (both by Limberlost Press). His poems have appeared in Native Funk and Flash, Penthouse, and Country Living. He co-published the literary magazine Wild Dog with poet Ed Dorn during the sixties. The publication was included in ��Mimeograph Revolution of American Literature�� a show at New York City��s Public Library. He has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University, the University of Utah, and for the Writers @ Work Conference in Park City, Utah. He received an Idaho Commission on the Arts Grant to be Poet-in-Residence for the Boise Public Schools as well as a Kathryn Albertson Idaho Community Foundation Award as part of the Idaho Community Foundation. Gino currently lives in Salt Lake City and is working on several new novels including Bumper Cars on the DNA Freeway about an inventor from The Fabled Land of the Far Far Left, Joe Rommel, who believes he is the reincarnation of the WWII German general, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

 

Hector Ahumada was born in Chile and now resides in Salt Lake City where he works as a Radiologist Technologist at University Hospital. In 2003, Ahumada published Sun and Water Poems with Luna's Press in San Francisco.  The same year he published The Highland Travelers/Los Viajeros del Altiplano, a book about returning to South America with his son, through Elik Press in Salt Lake. His poetry has been published in Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, Venceremos, The City Art Journal, Weber Studies, and Echo Newspaper. He is the editor of Bluff Fandango 98: A Reading Anthology. He received Salt Lake's 1996 Mayor's Award in Literature and is the director of the Hispanic Literary group, "Origines." He teaches poetry, mythology, and Spanish in the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Utah. Ahumada is also currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Utah Arts Council as a Literary Arts Representative.

 

The event is free and open to the public.  City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, 

Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and audience donations.