City Art Presents Katherine Indermaur and Jacqueline Balderrama

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

Wednesday November 6th 7:00—9:00 P.M.

            Writers Katherine Indermaur and Jacqueline Balderrama will read from their work November 13th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series.

Katherine Indermaur is the author of the chapbook Pulse (Ghost City Press, 2018). Tommy Pico selected her poem “Girl Descends Asunder” as the winner of the Black Warrior Review 2019 Contest, and her manuscript of the same name was a finalist for the 2019 Gasher Journal First-Book Scholarship. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Alpinist, Bad Pony, Entropy, Frontier Poetry, Ghost Proposal, New Delta Review, Oxidant|Engine, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from Colorado State University, where she won the 2018 Academy of American Poets Prize and was the managing editor for Colorado Review. She lives in Salt Lake City, where she works for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

Jacqueline Balderrama grew up in Southern California and has a BA from UC Riverside and a MFA from Arizona State University. While at ASU, she received Virginia G. Piper Center Fellowships for international writing residencies in Asia and was involved in the Letras Latinas literary initiative and the ASU Prison Education Program. Balderrama currently lives and teaches in Salt Lake City where she is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. Her poems have received the 2013 Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, won a 2019 Intro Journal Award, and been published in Blackbird, Poet Lore and other journals. She serves as co-poetry editor for Quarterly West and as poetry editor for Iron City Magazine

 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.