For Immediate Release

Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com

Heidi Czerwiec  and David Hawkins at City Art

Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111

Wednesday September 11, 7:00—8:00 P.M.

 

            Writers Heidi Czerwiec and David Hawkins will read from her work on Wednesday, September 11th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. 

 

Essayist and poet Heidi Czerwiec is the author of the recently-released lyric essay collection Fluid States, selected by Dinty W. Moore as winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose, and the poetry collection Conjoining, and is the editor of North Dakota Is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North Dakota Poets. She writes and teaches in Minneapolis, where she is an Editor for Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies and for Poetry City. Visit her at heidiczerwiec.com

 

David Hawkins is the author of the non-fiction chapbook, Lorraine Nelson: A Biography in Post-it® Notes, winner of the Cupboard’s Literary Pamphlet competition, selected by Michael Martone (2011) and the poetry collection, the book of the missing, winner of a Utah Arts Council award for poetry and a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson prize. His poetry and essays have appeared in a number of journals and periodicals, including At Length Magazine, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Chelsea, DIAGRAM, The Pedestal, SPORK, and The Seattle Review, among others. An Assistant Professor/Lecturer at the University of Utah, David teaches the essay and memoir writing as well as the many ways and spaces in which the body and writing intersect.

 

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.

 

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, X-mission, and audience donations.