For Immediate Release

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

Jeff Metcalf and Maximilian Werner to read at City Art

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

Wednesday May 2^nd 7:00—9:00 P.M.

Writers Jeff Metcalf and Maximilian Werner will read from their work on May 2nd at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.

An award winning writer and teacher, Jeff Metcalf lives in Salt Lake City,
Utah where he teaches at the University of Utah. Metcalf is the recipient
of the 2010 Utah Arts Council Award for the Essay, 2008 Outstanding
Teaching Award for the University of Utah, Huntsman Award for Excellence
in Education, a Fulbright Memorial Scholar Award, the National Council of
English Teachers Award, the Lifetime Advocacy Award from Writers @ Work,
grants from both the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Arts Council and
numerous other teaching awards. A finalist for the American Fiction Award
and a first-place runner-up for the Flyway Humor Award, Metcalf currently
writes jazz music review for the Deseret News and has two books under
consideration for publication in 2013.

Maximilian Werner is the author of Black River Dreams, a collection of literary fly fishing essays that won the 2008 Utah Arts Council's Original Writing Competition for Nonfiction: Book, and the novel Crooked Creek. He has two books coming out in spring of 2013, a memoir/natural history titled Chronicles of the Pleistocene Mind (Torrey House Press) and the memoir Gravity Hill (University of Utah Press). Mr. Werner's poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, and essays have appeared in several journals and magazines, including Matter Journal: Edward Abbey Edition, Bright Lights Film Journal, The North American Review, ISLE, Weber Studies, Fly Rod and Reel, and Columbia. He lives in Salt Lake City and teaches writing at the University of Utah.

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