Leslie Ullman and Phyllis Barber 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. Poet Leslie Ullman and fiction writer Phyllis Barber will read from their works on Wednesday September 11the at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Leslie Ullmanis the author of three poetry collections: Natural Histories, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1979; Dreams by No One's Daughter, which was published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 1987, and Slow Work Through Sand, from University of Iowa Press as co-winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize. She has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and her poems have appeared in magazines such as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Puerto Del Sol, and Blue Mesa Review, as well as numerous anthologies. Her poetry reviews have appeared in Kenyon Review and Poetry Magazine. She directs the MFA Program with a bilingual option at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she teaches workshops in poetry, creative non-fiction, fiction, and beginning creative writing, and literature courses in contemporary American poetry. She also is on the faculty of the Vermont College MFA Program. She lives on ranchland in Southern New Mexico. Phyllis Barber is the author of eight books of fiction and creative nonfiction, including How I Got Cultured (winner of the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 1991), Raw Edges: A Memoir, and a forthcoming book, To the Mountain: Memoir of a Mormon Seeker, from Quest Books (May, 2014). She has recently retired from the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program where she taught for many years, was one of the founders of the Writers at Work Conference, and was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2005. She has recently returned to Utah where she resides in Park City. City Art is sponsored by the Utah 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. Joel Long