ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City ArtPresents Brenda Sieczkowski and Sian Griffiths Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 14th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Brenda Sieczkowski and SianGriffith will read and perform their work on September 14th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. aspart of the City Art Reading Series. Brenda Sieczkowski’s poems andcreative essays have appeared widely in print and on-line journals, including The Colorado Review, Versal,The New England Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Diagram, The Florida Review, Bone Bouquet, The SenecaReview, Western Humanities Review,Gulf Coast, Dusie, Sidebrow, and Subtropics among others. Her essays have won awards from both Writers atWork and Knee-Jerk Magazine. She haspublished two chapbooks, Wonder Girl inMonster Land (dancing girl press, 2012) and Fallout & Flotation Devices (Little Red Leaves Textile Series,2014). Like Oysters Observing the Sun,her full-length poetry collection, was published by Black Lawrence Press in2014. SiânGriffiths lives in Ogden, Utah, where she directs the Creative WritingProgram at Weber State University. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review,Ninth Letter, Redivider, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Quarterly West, and TheRumpus, among other publications. Her short fiction has twice been nominatedfor the Pushcart Prize, once by Versal and once by The Georgia Review, and herdebut novel, Borrowed Horses (New Rivers Press), was a semi-finalist for the2014 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Currently, she reads fiction as part ofthe editorial team at Barrelhouse. For more information, please visitsbgriffiths.com Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long