Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art Presents Courtney Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday October 23rd 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Courtney
Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson will share new work from their
recent books published by Black Lawrence Press, 7:00 PM, October 23rd at
the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Courtney Craggett holds a PhD in English with specializations in
creative writing and multi-ethnic American literature from the University of
North Texas, where she taught English and served as the American Literary
Review’s Assistant Fiction Editor. Her short stories appear in The Pinch,
Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Booth, Juked, Word Riot, and
Monkeybicycle, among others, and were featured on Ploughshares’ blog. Her
reviews appear in American Microreviews and Interviews. Twice nominated for a
Pushcart, Courtney is the editors’ choice winner of the 2014 Sherwood Anderson
Award and the winner of The Pinch’s Spring 2017 Featured Contributor Award. She
is an Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University.
Rob Carney is originally from Washington state. He is the author of four
previous books, including 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press 2015), which was named a
finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Weather Report (Somondoco
Press 2006), which won the Utah Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in
Cave Wall, Poecology, Sugar House Review, Terrain: A Journal of the Built and
Natural Environments, and dozens of other journals, as well as the Norton
anthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). In 2014 he received the Robinson
Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for seven of the poems included in his
forthcoming collection The Book of Sharks. He is a Professor of English and
Literature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.
Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry has been published in Crab Orchard
Review, Adirondack Review, BODY, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, Southern
Indiana Review and other journals and anthologies and has been nominated for
two Pushcarts. She holds an MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at
Eastern Washington University and teaches at Weber State University. She lives
in northern Utah with her husband and three young sons.
This event is made possible with support from Weber State University Lindquist
College of Arts and Humanities, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities..
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.