For ImmediateRelease Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com J Adam Giannelli and Kase Johnstun to read atCity Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 20th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Adam Giannelli andKase Johnstun will read from their works on Wednesday, September 20th at 7:00p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. This event is free and open to the public. Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge(University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and thetranslator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOAEditions, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New EnglandReview, Ploughshares, Yale Review, FIELD, and elsewhere. He is a doctoralcandidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. Kase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah.He is the author of recently released "Beyond the Grip Craniosynostosis",which has been featured in Pennsylvania Parenting Magazine, Portland FamilyMagazine, The Ogden Standard Examiner, and many other places, as well as havingmentions in the Chicago Tribune and the Seattle Times. It was recently awardedthe Gold Quill (First Place) in Creative Nonfiction by the League of UtahWriters for 2015. His work has been published widely by literary journals andtrade magazines, including, but not limited to, Yahoo Parenting, CreativeNonfiction Magazine, Coldnoon: Travel Writing and Traveling Poetics, Like TheWind, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His forthcoming article aboutfamily will appear in Southwest, the magazine. He is the co-editor/author of"Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front” (The History Press), whichwas name the Salt Lake Tribune’s book of the month for August 2014. He is theliterary chair for the Ogden City Arts Advisory Committee, he was named toOgden’s 40 under 40 three weeks before he turned 40 in 2015 and hosts aliterary podcast called LITerally where he interviews authors about all thingspublishing and writing. In January 2016, he was the artist in residence atJIWAR International Artist Residency in Barcelona, Spain. This event is made possible with support fromCity Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. The event is freeand open to the public. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts,and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long