Writers
Lance Larsen and Nicole Sheets will read from their work on October 7that
the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M.
Lance Larsen (PhD, University of Houston) is the author of
two poetry collections: Erasable Walls and In All Their Animal Brilliance, the latter of which
won the Tampa Review Prize. His poems
have appeared in New York Review of Books, Paris
Review, Grand Street, New England Review, Times Literary Supplement, Kenyon
Review, New Republic, The Pushcart
Book of Poetry: the Best Poems from the First 30 Years, and
elsewhere. In 2005, he co-directed a semester-long study abroad program in
London and taught creative nonfiction. A professor of English at BYU, he
currently serves as associate chair. Former poetry editor at Gulf Coast, he has received grants and awards from The
Cultural Arts Council of Houston, the Joseph Campbell Society, the Utah Arts
Council, Sewanee, and Writers at Work. He is married to Jacqui Larsen, a
painter and mixed-media artist.
Nicole Sheets’ essays and book reviews
have appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Pilgrimage, and Quarterly West, and an essay is forthcoming in the anthology Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female
and Evangelical (Cascade Press, 2009). Sheets is a past winner of the Utah
Writers’ Contest, sponsored by Western
Humanities Review, and the Richard Scowcroft Prize in prose, from the
University of Utah Department of English. Sheets has written for several
newspapers and magazines in her home state of West Virginia and for Ziarul de Garda, a weekly newspaper in
the Republic of Moldova. Before moving to Utah, Sheets taught English in
Moldova as a Peace Corps volunteer. For the last five summers, she’s been on
the faculty of the West Virginia Governor’s Honors Academy, a program for high
school seniors, where she’s taught cooking, creative writing, and a little bit
of yoga. Sheets lives in Salt Lake City and is finishing up a Ph.D. in creative
writing 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, XMission, and
audience donations. The featured
reading will be followed by an open reading.