Writers Mylene Dressler and Lynn Kilpatrick will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday November 19th at 7:00. Mylène Dressler’s novel, The Medusa Tree, was praised in 1997 as “haunting” and “splendid” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler, and as a “lyrical and clearly envisioned debut” by Ms. Magazine. She soon followed it with The Deadwood Beetle, named by the Christian Science Monitor as one of its Best Books of 2001 and by the Women’s Press as one of its Great Books by Women Writers; and then with The Floodmakers (2004) her comic hybrid of play and novel. Dressler has been a faculty member or a visiting writer at the University of Texas at Austin, the National Autonomous University of Chiapas, the University of Groningen, Rice University, and the University of St. Thomas, among others. Her honors and awards include the Fulbright Fellowship, the Paisano Fellowship in Fiction, and the Fellowship in Writing from the McCullers Center in Columbus, Georgia, which allowed her to live in the home of the late Carson McCullers, and complete work toward her newest international novel, The Wedding of Anne Frank. She makes her home in Texas and in the canyon country of southern Utah, where she lives with her traveling companions, her husband and a red-and-white border collie. Lynn Kilpatrick's work has appeared in Tin House, Denver Quarterly, spork, and Salt Hill. She earned her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She teaches writing in Salt Lake City. Kilpatrick, won first place in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition for her short story collection, "The Infinite Cages.” Her collection of stories, In The House, is forthcoming (2010) from FC2. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.