Lin Ostler and Shena McAuliffe will read from the writings Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lin Ostler and Shena McAuliffe will read from their works for the City Art Reading Series on May 4th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Library’s Main Branch. . Shena McAuliffe is a fiction writer and essayist. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in Conjunctions, Alaska Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, Land-Grant College Review, PANK, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and currently lives in Salt Lake City, where she is a PhD candidate and Vice-presidential Fellow at the University of Utah. Among other things, she aims at cluttering her life with bicycles and tasty food. Since she spearheaded the first literary magazine--Satori-- at her first college, Lin has been the engaged in writing, reading and sharing poetry. With a fresh B.A. degree in English and French, she taught literature in Edmonton, Alberta for a while, helped establish Marmalade Hill “free” school in Salt Lake City, taught in a college in Vermont, and has guided writers’ workshops through various agencies of Utah Arts, all the while being a Yoga Instructor for nearly 40 years, a mother for nearly 30. Lin’s work has been danced, manifest and incorporated into multi-cultural collaborations such as “Moving the Stone” and “Emergents--Tracks in the Motherline” since her initial award-winning poem--Woman, the Pioneer-- illustrating a dance piece in 1971. An attempt at a three-genre 24 hour entry recently (2010) won the Iron Pen Marathon , a place where she has also come in second, as she did in the 1995 Utah Arts Original Writing and Utah Art Festival’s 2008 Iron Pen poetry competition. Lin notes the recurrence of this pattern in her life so frequently, she’s considering titling her memoir--All of Me: Coming in Second. George Jisho Robertson of London says of Lin’s poetry: This is the authentic voice of being alive... it inspires with its lived particularity and lucidly involved detachment - truly from the Apex embracing the senses and creative intelligence. Your feeling for the texture and sound of words is elegant and moving. You are a true poet.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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long