For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Siân Griffiths and Kimberly Johnson at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 18th, 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. Writers Siân Griffiths and Kimberly Johnson will read from their work, January 18th, at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Siân Griffith’s debut novel, Borrowed Horses (New Rivers Press), was a semi-finalist for the 2014 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She released two new works of fiction in 2020. The ten stories in her short fiction collection The Heart Keeps Faulty Time (Bull City Press) recycle elements from various genres (romance, sci fi, super heroes, etc) to create irreverent, funny, feminist pieces. Her novel Scrapple (Braddock Ave Books) was inspired by her love of family and Philadelphia. In addition to her novels and collection, her essay collection The Sum of Her Parts was selected for the Crux Series in Creative Nonfiction and is newly published by University of Georgia Press. | | | | $17.00 | | | | | | | Scrapple by Siân Griffiths on Braddock Avenue Books Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, June 1, 2020. Imagine stepping into an apartment expecting to meet your bro... | | | Currently, Siân reads fiction as part of the editorial teams at Barrelhouse. She's a mother, a mutt-lover, and an avid-if-inept athlete. When not teaching, writing, editing, and parenting, she plays tennis and is working on improving her dressage with her Holsteiner gelding, Larry. Siân Griffiths serves as Professor of English and teaches creative writing at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah Kimberly Johnson’s fourth collection of poetry, Fatal is out from Persea Books. She has published book-length translations of major poems from antiquity, including the Georgics of Virgil, published as part of the landmark Penguin Classics series in 2009, and Hesiod’s two great poems of the 7th century BCE, Theogony and Works and Days, released in a single volume by Northwestern University Press in 2017. Johnson has received awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has held visiting fellowships at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah and at the American Academy in Rome. Johnson is a Professor of English at Brigham Young University. When she’s not in the classroom, Johnson can be found running, cross-country skiing, rock climbing, hiking, and camping in the mountains and deserts of Utah. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long