ForImmediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
DavidKranes and Jeff Metcalf to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday February 5th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Fiction writers David Kranes and JeffMetcalf will read from their works on Wednesday February 5th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
David Kranes is a writer of seven novels andthree volumes of short stories—most recently, (novel) Making The Ghost Dance (2005) and (stories) The Legend’s Daughter (2013). His 2001 novel, The National Tree,was made into a film by Hallmark, which aired in November 2009. His short fiction (appearing in suchmagazines as Esquire, Ploughshares,Transatlantic Review) has won literary prizes and has beenanthologized. Over 40 of his plays havebeen performed in New York and across the U.S. (in theaters such as The Actors’Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theater Club,Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park), and his Selected Plays was published in 2010. His most recent theater venture wascontributing a play to an evening (with the prompt of “bravery”) of six shortplays—3 by American playwrights, 3 by Iraqi playwrights. He has written for radio, film and for dancecompanies. The opera, Orpheus Lex, for which he wrote thelibretto, was performed at New York City’s Symphony Space in February of2010. In his second (or is it third?)life, Mr. Kranes, travels and consults in the casino industry.
Jeff Metcalf is the author of Wacko’sCity of Fun Carnival, Requiem for the Living, and the play A SlightDiscomfort. He is an award-winning writerand teacher, as well as the director of a nonprofit aimed to grant underservedpopulations access to higher education. Metcalf lives in Salt Lake City, Utahwhere he teaches literature and playwriting in the English Department and inthe Honors College at the University of Utah. A recipient of the 2016Taft-Nicholson Artist-in-Residence Award, 2014 Distinguished Teacher AwardUniversity of Utah, the 53rd Utah Arts Council Award for Creative non-fiction(Requiem for the Living, University of Utah Press), the 2008 Career TeachingAward from the University of Utah, the Huntsman Award for Excellence inEducation, a Fulbright Memorial Scholar Award, the National Council of EnglishTeachers Award, the Lifetime Advocacy Award from Writers @ Work, grants fromboth the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Arts Council and numerous otherteaching awards. His most recent work, Hope, Heart and the Humanities, acollaboration with four other professors, will be released in November by theUniversity of Utah Press.
Metcalf’s play, A SlightDiscomfort, about his own prostate cancer, has been continuously performedsince its world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company in October of 2008. ‘ASlight Discomfort’ has been broadcast on National Public Radio, Radio West, andperformed in Croatia, Spain, Italy, Turkey and in fifteen states. He is hard atwork on a series of fly-fishing essays as well as a book on social justice ineducation. When he is not writing, Metcalf can be found fly-fishing the greattrout waters of the West.
City Artis sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
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.
