Jenn
Gibbs and Jessica Payne to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday February 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Jenn Gibbs and Jessica Payne
to read from their work on February 11th at the Salt Lake City Public Library
at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Jenn Gibbs’ diverse experience as a professional writer and editor makes
her an engaging and versatile resource for fellow writers. She earned an MFA in
Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University, and her stories and
essays have appeared in The Chattoochee Review, Heartlands Today, Blueline,
Where Women Create, and numerous art-and-craft how-to books published by
Sterling, Lark Books, and Martingale Press. In addition to teaching Creative
Writing for Lifelong Learning, she teaches technical and collaborative writing
for the University of Utah’s College of Engineering’s CLEAR program and is a
Content Specialist for Utah Education Network.
Jessica Payne is a
novelist and short story author. She won
the Wasatch Iron Pen Competition two years running for her short stories Contracting Roots and A Brief Affair with Lonnie Anderson. Jessica’s most recent work, a paranormal
suspense serial novella entitled The
Soulstice, is now available on Amazon for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the
University of Utah and a MBA from Westminster College. Jessica owes most of her
accomplishments to coffee, without which nothing would ever get done. On the
rare occasions she is able to relinquish her coffee mug, Jessica cultivates a
new generation of writers by facilitating a writing workshop for sixth-graders
at the local elementary school.
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.