Poet Sandy Anderson will read from her works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on December 2nd at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Sandy Anderson has been involved in organizing and giving poetry readings and workshops since 1965. She was a founding member of Salt Lake Younger Poets in the 1960’s, Word Affair in the 70’s and 80’s, and City Art in the 90’s. She has been artist in residence at Valley and Alta High School, and has given workshops to groups of disabled, Veterans, and prisoners. She has served as Poetry Co-ordinator for the Utah Arts Festival and First Night, and Poetry Consultant to the Salt Lake Arts Council. She is listed in Literary Utah: A Bibliographic Guide edited by Joyce Kinkhead and sponsored by the Utah Council of teachers of English. She was the 1997 recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award in Literature, and the 1995 Writers at Work Writing Advocate Award for continued support of the literary community. Anderson has given readings at the First Night Celebration in Salt Lake City, the Utah Arts Festival, Park City Arts Festival, the Utah Book Festival, the Underwater Poetry Festival, the Saint Marks Arts Festival, the Somos series in Taos, New Mexico, Colorado Springs and Trinidad in Colorado, the Limberlost Fandango in and the Log Cabin in Boise, and the Rocky Mountain Writers Festival in Pocatello, Idaho. Anderson’s chapbook, Jeanne Was Once a Player of Pianos, was published by Limberlost Press in 1998. Her book, At the Edge in White Robes, was published by Ghost Planet Press in 1978. She is included in the anthologies Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, The Trubador Anthology, and The Great Salt Lake Anthology. She was the editor of the first issue of Wasatch Front, which won first place in the literary magazine category in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association, and is a former editor of City Art Journal. She has published poems in Limberlost Review, Weber Studies, The Deseret News, Echo Canyon News, Runes, and Lucid Moon. Anderson teaches piano under her married name, Sandy Wilkerson, and has served as a judging chairman for the Salt Lake Area Chapter of the American Music Federation since the 1970’s . She has edited collections of poems by Ken Brewer, Nancy Takacs, and Miriam Murphy, Willie Newbrough, and three collections of poetry by the disabled. She has been a screener for the May Swenson poetry book contest for several years, and has helped organize the out of town night of readings at the Rocky Mountain Poetry Festival in Pocatello. She has recently joined the 2006 Great Salt Lake Book Festival Steering Committee as chair of the booksellers and exhibitors. 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, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.