For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Melanie Rae Thon and Siân Griffithsto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 5th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Melanie Rae Thon and Siân Griffithswill read from their work on Wednesday December 5th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Melanie Rae Thon's most recent books are the novel The Voice of the River (September 2011) and In This Light: New and Selected Stories (June 2011). She is also the author of the novels Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, and the story collections First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Thon’s work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). She is a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award (1997), two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992 and 2008), a Writer's Residency from the Lannan Foundation (2005), and a fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center (2009). Thon's fiction has been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Finnish, Japanese, and Farsi. Originally from Montana, Thon now lives in Salt Lake City, where she teaches in the Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities programs at the University of Utah. Siân Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah where she serves as assistant professor of English at Weber State University. Her work is published in Quarterly West, Ninth Letter, Cave Wall, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Clackamas Literary Review, Oregon Literary Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Permafrost, Mary, Versal, Court Green, and The Georgia Review, among other publications. Her story “What Is Solid” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and Janet Burroway included her poem, “Fistful,” in the third edition of Imaginative Writing. His first novel, Borrowed Horses, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City 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. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 14 Michael Sowder Jennifer Sinor 20 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 Michael Gills Franklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long