For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Karin
Anderson and Molly Gaudry to 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 Gaudry will 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
Anderson has 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
Breach is 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