For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com David Kranes and Eric Howerton to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 6, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Fiction writers David Kranes and Eric Howerton will read from their works on Wednesday November 6th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. David Kranesis a writer of seven novels and three volumes of short stories—most recently, (novel) Making The Ghost Dance (2005) and (stories) The Legend’s Daughter (2013). His 2001 novel, The National Tree, was made into a film by Hallmark, which aired in November 2009. His short fiction (appearing in such magazines as Esquire, Ploughshares, Transatlantic Review) has won literary prizes and has been anthologized. Over 40 of his plays have been performed in New York and across the U.S. (in theaters such as The Actors’ Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theater Club, Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park), and his Selected Plays was published in 2010. His most recent theater venture was contributing a play to an evening (with the prompt of “bravery”) of six short plays—3 by American playwrights, 3 by Iraqi playwrights. He has written for radio, film and for dance companies. The opera, Orpheus Lex, for which he wrote the libretto, was performed at New York City’s Symphony Space in February of 2010. In his second (or is it third?) life, Mr. Kranes, travels and consults in the casino industry. Eric Howertonis currently a 5th-year PhD candidate in Fiction at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, a former fiction editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, and a current adjunct faculty member at Weber State University where he teaches composition and creative writing. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico and a Master's of Fine Arts in Fiction from The Pennsylvania State University. His fiction and journalism have appeared or are forthcoming in PANK, The Higgs Weldon, Night Train, Grey Sparrow, Duck and Herring Pocket Field Guides, Johnny America, Haggardand Halloo, as well as several alternative weeklies in Texas and New Mexico. He is currently at work on a novel about experimental heavy metal music, theoretical physics, and the end of the world, and a collection of short stories. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. 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. Joel Long