For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents 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 Sian
Griffith will read and perform their work
on September 14th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as
part of the City Art Reading Series.
Brenda Sieczkowski’s poems and
creative 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 Seneca
Review, Western Humanities Review,
Gulf Coast, Dusie, Sidebrow, and Subtropics among others. Her essays have won awards from both Writers at
Work and Knee-Jerk Magazine. She has
published two chapbooks, Wonder Girl in
Monster 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 in
2014.
Siân
Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah, where she directs the Creative Writing
Program at Weber State University. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review,
Ninth Letter, Redivider, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Quarterly West, and The
Rumpus, among other publications. Her short fiction has twice been nominated
for the Pushcart Prize, once by Versal and once by The Georgia Review, and her
debut novel, Borrowed Horses (New Rivers Press), was a semi-finalist for the
2014 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Currently, she reads fiction as part of
the editorial team at Barrelhouse. For more information, please visit
sbgriffiths.com
Most featured
readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah
Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,
Arts, and Park Fund.
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.
Joel Long