Sylvia Torti and Barbara Murdock will reading from their works on Wednesday, January 11 at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch. Sylvia Torti's /The Scorpion's Tail/ won the 2005 Miguel Marmol Prize, awarded annually by Curbstone Press for the best debut work in fiction by a Latino/a writer. She is an Assistant Research Professor of Biology at the University of Utah and currently is president of Writers at Work. "/The Scorpion's Tail/ is a novel that is simultaneously compelling, complicated and insightful. Sylvia Torti deftly unites disparate elements and voices in this tale of the Zapatista rebellion of January 1, 1994, in Chiapas, Mexico-one of the most momentous events of the beginnings of the twenty-first century. -Luis J. Rodriguez Torti has written a compelling story of this sometimes-overlooked period in Mexico's history--a story enriched by its honest and disparate points Barbara Murdock retired in June after teaching creative writing, English, and French for thirty years in the Salt Lake City School District, twenty-seven of those years at East High where she was adviser for Pencilings, East's art literary magazine and for Take Five, an annual production of five student-written, one-act plays. Among her recognitions are awards from The National Council of Teachers of English, The Scholastic Writing Awards, and The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. In 1997 she was named Distinguished Teacher by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the United States Office of Education. In June, she received the Educator of Excellence Award from Writers @ Work. 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, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com