Writers Michael Gills and Jennifer Sinor will read from their work on May 14th
at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Michael Gills was McKean Poetry Fellow at the University of Arkansas and
Randall Jarrell Fellow in Fiction in the MFA Program at the University of
North Carolina-Greensboro. He earned the Ph.D. in Creative Writing/Fiction at
the University of Utah. His work is currently featured in Oxford American's
Best of the South issue and Verb 4: An Audio Quarterly. Other fiction has
appeared in Shenandoah, Boulevard, The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro
Review, Quarterly West, Salt Flats Annual, Moon City Review, Nebo Literary
Quarterly, Arkansas Literary Forum, Parting Gifts, Lynx Eye, New York Stories,
Salt Hill Journal, Flint Hills Review, Santa Clara Review, New Stories From
The South: The Year's Best and elsewhere. Why I Lie: Stories (University of
Nevada Press, September, 2002) won the Utah Arts Publication Prize, was a
finalist for the Utah Humanities Book Prize, the Arkansas Porter Prize, and
was chosen by Southern Review as one of the top debut books of 2002. He is
currently marketing a second book of stories, The Death of Bonnie & Clyde and
a novel, Go Love, chapters of which have appeared in Chattahoochee Review and
Red Mountain Review. Gills, the 2005-2006 Utah Arts Endowed Artist in
Fiction, teaches writing in the Honors Department at the University of Utah.
Jennifer Sinor is the author of _The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing_.
Her essays have most recently appeared in _The American Scholar_ and
_Brevity_. She has just completed a memoir entitled _The Autobiography of
Loss_ and
teaches creative writing at Utah State where she is an associate professor.
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.
