For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Shawn Fawson to read at City Art along with the end of the season Open Reading Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday June 6th 7:00—9:00 P.M. The end of the year open reading this year features a special guest, Shawn Fawson along with anyone else who would like to read their own works at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Please come out and bring your poems and prose to read and maybe some food and beverages to share. Winner of the Utah Book Award for Poetry, Shawn Fawson resides with her two daughters in Denver, Colorado, where she studies in the MDIV Program at the Iliff School of Theology with the hopes of bringing the intersections of poetry and pastoral care to hospital chaplaincy. Her book "Giving Way" was published by The Bitter Oleander Press in 2010 and won the Utah Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Her work has appeared in Natural Bridge, Vallum, and Mid-American Review, among others. Most recently she won the 2012 South Loop non-fiction Prize. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. 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. Joel Long