Fiction writer Sylvia Torti and Poet Shira Dentz will read from their works on October 8th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library’s main branch as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Sylvia Torti is a Salt Lake ecologist and writer. Her novel, The Scorpion's Tail, (Curbstone Press) won the 2005 Marmol Award. Her stories and nonficition have been published in Seed: Science is Culture, The Wasatch Journal, City Weekly, River City and the upcoming anthology, Are We Feeling Better Yet? She is working on a new novel, which takes place in a bird laboratory--starring a few scientists and a lot of birdsong.
Shira Dentz's poems and stories have appeared in journals including American Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Field, Western Humanities Review, Seneca Review,
Electronic Poetry Review, Laurel Review, Painted Bride
Quarterly, Salt Hill Journal, Barrow Street, The Journal,
Web del Sol, Phoebe, Big Bridge, Cimarron Review. and on the Poetry Daily website, among others. Her
poetry has aired on NPR, and she has been the recipient of Poetry
Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards,
Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award, and Painted Bride
Quarterly's Poetry Prize. In addition, she has received fellowships
from Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, Squaw
Valley Writers’ Community, and the MacDowell Arts Colony. She lived
and worked for many years as a graphic artist in New York City, is a
graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently is a
doctoral candidate at the University of Utah.
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.
