For Immediate Release

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

City Art Presents Brenda Miller and Dayna Patterson

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

Wednesday October 5th 6:30—8:00 P.M.

            Writers Brenda Miller and Dayna Patterson will read and perform their work  on October 5th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. 

Brenda Miller’s most recent books are A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing on Form and Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, a collection of collaborative essays with Julie Marie Wade. She is the author of five more essay collections, including An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. She co-authored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, now in its third edition from McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

Dayna Patterson is a Thea-curious recovering Mormon, fungophile, macrophotography enthusiast, and textile artist. She’s the author of Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her next collection, O Lady, Speak Again, is forthcoming from Signature Books in 2025. Honors include the Association for Mormon Letters Poetry Award and the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Poetry Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Her creative work has appeared recently in EcoTheo, Kenyon Review, and Whale Road Review. She’s the founding editor (now emerita) of Psaltery & Lyre and a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. In her spare time, she curates Poetry + Fungus, a pairing of poetry books and species from the fungal world. daynapatterson.com

Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art has been sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, 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.