Fiction writers Gerda Saunders and Kirstin Scott will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday March 11th at 7:00. In Salt Lake City, Saunders began writing fiction. In 1996 she received a PhD in English from the University of Utah, where she subsequently taught fiction writing. She entered the field of corporate training, working her way from Technical Writer to Director of Courseware at a company that created multi-media instructional materials for computer- and Web-based training. In 2001, Saunders returned to the University of Utah to become Associate Director of the Gender Studies Program, where she also teaches. Saunders’s fiction has been published in literary journals, where she has won several contests. Her short story collection Blessings on the Sheep Dog received the 1998 Utah Arts Council Publication Prize and was published by SMU Press, Dallas, Texas, in May 2002. Her first novel, The Last Pietà of MichelAgniolo, won the 2001 Utah Arts Council Book Length Prize. My short stories have appeared in Western Humanities Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Sonora Review and in the anthology, What There Is. I've won fiction prizes from Western Humanities Review and Story magazine, and my novel "Motherlunge" recently won first place in Utah Arts Council's Original Writing competition. I received my M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Utah and currently work as a medical writer at Intermountain Healthcare. I'm a Scorpio. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.