Writer Dawn Marano and poet Nathan Hauke will reading from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, October 3rd as part of the City Art Reading Series. Dawn Marano served for several years as an editor at the University of Utah Press. She is a co-author (with W. Scott Olsen, Wendy Bishop, and Douglas Carlson) of When We Say We're Home: A Quartet of Place and Memory, a work of literary nonfiction, and of a recently completed memoir, Trusting the Edge which won first place in the nonfiction book category of the 2005 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in several publications including Ascent and Terra Nova, and in the anthologies The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World (University of Utah 1996), and In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal from W. W. Norton & Company. Her work has been also cited among Notable Essays in The Best American Essays. Her Dawn frequently makes appearances and teaches at regional writing conferences and through Lifelong Learning at the University of Utah. She regularly attends other national gatherings, as well, such as The Associated Writing Programs annual conference. Her extensive network of professional associations includes other editors, publishers, literary agents, and nationally recognized authors. Dawn Marano has been described by authors with whom she has worked as a "writer's editor." Since she writes and publishes as well as edits, she brings to authors and their manuscripts an insight born of years spent sitting at a keyboard, wrestling with thoughts and with drafts and their revision. Dawn is a co-author (with W. Scott Olsen, Wendy Bishop, and Douglas Carlson) of When We Say We're Home: A Quartet of Place and Memory, a work of literary nonfiction, and of a recently completed memoir, Trusting the Edge which won first place in the nonfiction book category of the 2005 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in several publications including Ascent and Terra Nova, and in the anthologies The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World (University of Utah 1996), and In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal from W. W. Norton & Company. Her work has been also cited among Notable Essays in The Best American Essays. Dawn frequently makes appearances and teaches at regional writing conferences and through Lifelong Learning at the University of Utah. Nathan Hauke lives in Salt Lake City where he is happily enrolled in the PhD poetry program at the University of Utah. He has an MA in creative writing from Central Michigan University (2004). His poetry has been published in New American Writing, XANTIPPE, Parthenon West, Colorado Review, Twenty Six, Electronic Poetry Review, Free Verse, Word For / Word, Gutcult, and the tiny. His prose has appeared in Interim, Electronic Poetry Review, and Jacket. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/