For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City Art Presents Dawn Houghton and Christopher Leibow Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 8th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writer Dawn Houghton and poet Christoper Leibow will read and perform their work on January 8th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Dawn Houghton's work has appeared in Ledge, Black River Review, Quarterly West, Poetry Motel and other literary journals. Her collection of short stories, 80s Love was a finalist in the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She has, over the years, received a writing grant and seven Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition awards, including first place for her novel What You Start With. She is the founder of the nonprofit organization Book Wagon, works occasionally at The King's English and steadily as a realtor at Coldwell Banker. Christopher Leibow is a poet, a visual artist and a performer of small slights of hand. He is an MFA graduate of Antioch and has been published in numerous journals and online, including Sugarhouse Review, Nano Fiction, Otis Nebula, and Likewise Folio. His art has appeared in Lumina,491 Magazine and has been a featured artist online with Cha: A Journal of Asian Writing and OFZOOs. He is a two time Pushcart Award nominee and a Utah Book Award Nominee and the winner of the Writers@Work Writers Advocate Award in 2008.currently lives in Salt Lake City, with his girl, their dog Penelope the Perpetual Wonderpup and her cat sidekick Count Orly. 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