For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Karin Anderson and Molly Gaudryto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 22nd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Karin Anderson and Molly Gaudrywill read from their works on Wednesday, October 22nd at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public. Karin Andersonhas a Ph.D. in creative writing and poststructuralist theory from the University of Utah. She is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University where she was previously Department Chair and is currently a member of the creative writing faculty. Her writing has appeared in Sunstone, Dialogue, Western Humanities Review, Quarter After Eight, Saranac Review, American Literary Review, and in anthologies with Signature Books and University Readers Breachis a lineage. Her own cosmology at risk, she is begat again, thrust up through the arid mantle beneath the Great Salt Lake and splined up and across the big sky as a woman and a mother and a careful being who is simply flying into the wreckage The Andersons are a hardtack sort, built from gravel and loam and the echoes of Brigham Young’s voice shot out from the canyons. But the sermons do not land clearly. Instead we watch as Karin vacillates between intellectual and pioneer woman, Latter-day Saint and woman veering toward outer darkness. She marries and starts a family. With her husband growing more and more distant, even perversely hostile, they tumble together, wits against arms, for a better foothold at the base of the Wasatch Range. In 2011, Molly Gaudry was shortlisted for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, and her verse novel, We Take Me Apart, was named 2nd finalist for the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. In 2012, YesYes Books released the 3-author volume Frequencies, which includes her short fiction collection Lost July. In 2014, The Cupboard released, a collection Wild Thing of essays and poems about recovery after brain injury, and Ampersand Books reprinted We Take Me Apart in anticipation of the release of its sequel Desire: A Haunting and its prequel Remember Us. Molly is a core faculty member of the Yale Writers' Conference and is the founder of The Lit Pub. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the Utah Humanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long