ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City ArtPresents A.J. Martine and Shen Christensen Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 8th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Shen Christensen and A.J.Martine will read from their work on April 8th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Shen Christensen’s fictionhas appeared in Story Quarterly, Alaskan Quarterly Review, Hayden’s FerryReview, Denver Quarterly, Nebraska Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black RidgeReview. She received an MFA fromUniversity of Utah in 1994. Among heraward for her fictions are Story Magazine First place for short story, Atlantictop ten finalists for short story, Chicago Magazine winner of one of twoliterary awards, and the Utah Short Story Competition Second Place (the yearthat Gerda Saunders won first place!) Her work also appears in The Way We Live Anthology and What There Is; The Crossroads Antholog. SHE QUIT WRITING BECAUSE IT IS TOOHARROWING, BLOOD SUCKING, AND HARD. She started writing again about nine monthsago for her kids who are now grown up. A.J. Martine is awestern-born man raised by a feral ranch family in southwestern Colorado, onthe Colorado Plateau. The plateau is a character, protagonist, villain, andflinty, indifferent, but demanding lover that features in much of hiswriting. In hind-sight, he says that doing things the hard way wasn't agood business model for living but it did give him a lot of experiences to minefor his story telling. Martine’s Fiction, Poetry, and Creativenon-fiction Published in Rocky Mountain Review, Catalyst Magazine, Salt LakeMagazine, Outside Magazine, Wazzee Street Literary Magazine, University ofIdaho Press, and Glimmer Train Press. Heearned Awards first place from the Utah Society of Professional Journalists forhis investigative essay Tracking Dust. He works as anEnvironmental Mitigation and Mediation Consultant. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long