For Immediate Release

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

Lisa Roullard and Mike Dorrell to read at City Art

Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
 
Wednesday January 10th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
 
Writers Lisa Roullard and Mike Dorrell will read from their work on Wednesday, January 10th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public.
 
Lisa Roullard was born and raised in Seattle.  She earned her BA in English at the University of Washington and her MFA in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University.  Her poetry has appeared in magazines such as Hawaii Pacific Review and Atlanta Review and on buses in Boise, Idaho, as part of Poetry in Motion.  In 2013 she won the Utah Original Writing Competition for poetry.  Years ago she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In addition to writing poetry, Lisa is trying her hand at children’s picture books.  She lives in Salt Lake City with her family where as often as possible she walks in the rain. 
 
 
Mike Dorrell was born and brought up in Swansea, Wales. Best known as a playwright, he is the author of over a dozen plays for stage, radio and television including work for Paines Plough, Avon Touring, and BBC Radio 4. In Utah, both Salt Lake Acting Company and Utah Contemporary Theatre have performed his work, and with the latter he devised the Talking Wales series of monologues which was performed in unusual theatre spaces including this library. Mike has first and second degrees from the Universities of London and Bristol, and has an M.A. in British and American Literature from the U. of U. He has taught both there and at Westminster College. He was Dramaturg for Salt Lake Acting Company from 1999 to 2008 and while there he helped develop new plays by Julie Jensen, Jeff Metcalf and others. Most recently he has completed a seed commission for National Theatre Wales. Mike learned his trade as a novelist by working as a freelance publisher’s reader, editor and rewrite man. With his former writing partner he wrote novels under a variety of pseudonyms including Rafe Quilty and Jericho Hood. When the BBC contacted him some years ago to ask him if he really was that Mike Dorrell who had novelized the Dick Barton Radio Series, he decided to return to novel writing. Tonight, he will read from his new novel, George and Nye and Betty.
 
 
Most featured readings are followed by an open reading.
 
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. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Joel Long