Writers Cara Diacanoff and David Hawkins will read from their works at the Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on April 8th. Cara Diaconoff is the author of a story collection, Unmarriageable Daughters (Lewis-Clark Press, 2008) and a novel, I’ll Be a Stranger to You, forthcoming from Juniper Press in 2009. Her stories have appeared individually in Indiana Review, Other Voices, South Dakota Review, and descant; her work has won fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, the Utah Arts Council, and the MacDowell Colony. She has taught creative writing as a lecturer at Texas Christian University, a Peace Corps volunteer at colleges in Russia, and, currently, as the Visiting Writer at Whitman College. She is working on her second novel. David Hawkins’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Chelsea, Poems & Plays, and The Southeast Review. His first book, Dark Adaptations, was selected by Allen Grossman as the first runner-up in the 2008 Bellday Books poetry prize and is the recipient of the ’08 Utah Arts Council prize for a collection of poems. He currently teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in the University of Utah’s Writing Program. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.