ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com BradRoghaar and Ryan Ridge to readat City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 19th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.   Ogden’s Poet Laureate Brad Roghaar and fiction writer Ryan Ridge willread from their works on Wednesday, April 19th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt LakeCity Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. This event is freeand open to the public.   Brad Roghaar was named Ogden’s Poet Laureate in fall of 2016.  Roghaar has instructed literature and writingat Weber State for the last thirty years. He has published one book of poetry titled Unraveling the Knot and isjust finishing up a second book titled Standof Aspen: Places of Healing. He is also currently writing the script— a"cinepoem"—for a film on wild horses in Utah. As if these projectsweren’t enough, he also serves on the editorial board for Rough Draft, is thefaculty advisor for Metaphor, and is the editor for Weber Studies. He was also Utah State Poet of the Yearin 1991, has served on the committee to select a state poet laureate and wasthe Utah Poetry Society Poet Laureate of 1992. RYANRIDGE holds a BA in English from the University of Louisville andan MFA in Fiction from the University of California, Irvine, where he was therecipient of the MacDonald Harris prize for fiction. He is the author offour books, including American Homes (Universityof Michigan Press, 2014), which was the Michigan Library Publishing Club’sinaugural book club pick. His fiction and essays have appeared inSantaMonica Review, Mississippi Review, Potomac Review, LosAngeles Review, Lumina, NERVE,DIAGRAM, PassagesNorth, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Ridge received the 2016Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction judged by Jonathan Lethem. An assistantprofessor at Weber State University, he edits the literary magazine Juked and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He ismarried to writer Ashley Farmer. ​    Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading.   The event is free and open to the public.  City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations.               Joel Long