Writers Maria Melendez and Rachel Marston will read from their work on
Wednesday, April 16th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the
City Art Reading Series.
Maria Melendez has published two collections of poetry: the chapbook Base
Pairs (Swan Scythe Press, 2001) and How Long She'll Last in This World
(University of Arizona Press, 2006), which received Honorable Mention at the
2007 International Latino Book Awards and was named a finalist for the 2007
PEN Center USA Literary Awards. Her essays and features appear in Altar,
Orion Afield, and Isotope, and several of her essays on arts and activism have
been broadcast as part of NPR's American Democracy Project. She
co-coordinates Poetas y Pintores: Artists Conversing with Verse, a traveling
exhibition of contemporary Latino art and poetry. Her own poetry and fiction
have appeared in such magazines as Barrow Street, International Quarterly, and
Ecological Restoration, and she has edited two anthologies of poetry by
poet-teachers and K-12 students for California Poets in the Schools. She
received her M.A. in English/Creative Writing from UC Davis in 2000. From
2000-2003 she was awarded grants from the California Arts Council in support
of her work as writer-in-residence at the U.C. Davis Arboretum, where she
taught environmental writing workshops for the public. In 2003, Saint Mary's
College in Notre Dame, Indiana, appointed her Research Fellow at the Center
for Women's InterCultural Leadership. She currently lives in Logan, Utah,
where she teaches creative writing and American literature at Utah State
University.
Rachel Marston is working on her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the
University of Utah. She is a fiction editor at Quarterly West and helps
coordinate the University of Utah's Guest Writers Series. She has fiction
published or forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review, Barrelhouse, and Versal.
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.
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