Fiction writers Melanie Rae Thon and Halina Duraj Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednseday March 3 7:00-- 9:00 p.m. Writers Melanie Rae Thon and Halina Duraj will read from their works for the City Art Reading Series on March 3 at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Library’s Main Branch. Halina Duraj has a master's in creative writing from the University of California, Davis, and is currently a Ph.D. student in creative writing at the University of Utah. Her essay, "My Boyfriend Is a Fascist," won first place for non-fiction in the Utah Arts Council Writing Competition, and some of her fiction is forthcoming in Witness, Third Coast, and Descant. Melanie Rae Thon's most recent books are the novel Sweet Hearts and the story collection, First, Body. Her work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), Granta's Best Young American Novelists (1996), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). She is also a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award (1997), a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992), and a Writer's Residency from the Lannan Foundation (2005). Her new fiction appears or is forthcoming in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Glimmer Train, Conjunctions: A Writers' Aviary, Pushcart Prize XXXII, Idaho Review, Crazyhorse, Five Points;and at http://www.drumlummon.org. Originally from Montana, she now lives in migration between the Pacific Northwest and Salt Lake City, where she teaches at the University of Utah. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long