For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Nance Van Winckel and David Hawkins to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 2nd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Nance Van Winckel and David Hawkins will read from their works on Wednesday, April 2nd at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as par of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public. Nance Van Winckel’s Pacific Walkers, her sixth book of poems, was recently released from U. of Washington Press. A fourth collection of linked short stories, Boneland, came out with U. of Oklahoma Press in October 2013. Nance’s other books of poetry include: No Starling (University of Washington Press, 2007), Bad Girl, with Hawk (U. of Illinois Press, 1987), The Dirt (Miami U. Press, 1994), Beside Ourselves (Miami University Press, 2003), and After A Spell (Miami U. Press, 1998), which received the Washington State Governor’s Award for Poetry. She's received two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, Poetry Magazine’s Friends of Literature Award, two Washington State Artist Trust Awards, The Midland Authors Award, and awards from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Gettysburg Review, Field, Volt, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Ploughshares. Nance's three books of short stories include Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2000), Quake (U. of Missouri Press, 1998) which received the 1998 Paterson Fiction Prize, and Limited Lifetime Warranty (U. of Missouri Press, 1994). New stories appear in The Georgia Review, Colorado Review, and AGNI. Nance received a Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship for the forthcoming book Boneland. Van Winckel teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has also taught at Lake Forest College in Illinois (1979-90) and is Professor Emerita in the MFA in Writing program at Eastern Washington University, where she served as editor of the literary journal Willow Springs from 1990-96. David Hawkins’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Chelsea, Poems & Plays, and The Southeast Review. His first book, Dark Adaptations, was selected by Allen Grossman as the first runner-up in the 2008 Bellday Books poetry prize and is the recipient of the ’08 Utah Arts Council prize for a collection of poems. He currently teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in the University of Utah’s Writing Program. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Schedule: April 2 Dave Hawkins Nance Van Winkle 9 Andrea Hollander Lisa Zimmerman 16 Anne Caston Joel Long May 7 Gerda Saunders 14 High School Night 21 June 4 Final Open Reading Joel Long