Nicole Stansbury and Roger McDonough will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on November 10th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Nicole Stansbury lives in Salt Lake City. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines including Threepenny Review, Prism International, and Yellowsilk. She is the recipient of an Artist's Grant from the utah Arts Council. Her first novel, Places to Look for a Mother, was published by Carroll & Graf in 2002 and is a poignant examination of mother-daughter relationships. A collection of short stories, The Husband's Dilemma, was publsidhed in March, 2004 (Carroll & Graf). Of the new collection Kirkus Reviews states "Marital discord, unhappy wives, lecherous repairmen, a realtor with polygamy on his mind, and custody disputes may seem the stuff of gloomy reading, but Stansbury strikes just the right balance between humor and the kind of realism that is both familiar and shocking to make this a satisfying expose of American relationships in the age of Oprah."
Roger McDonough graduated from the University of Utah in 2001 with a BA in English. For the past year and a half he has produced a weekly live radio feature for KCPW called "This Week in Salt Lake's History for which he was awarded an "Outstanding Service Award" in Media from the
Utah Historical Society. Listeners describe the show as "creative, engaging, informative, insightful, sometimes sobering, and sometimes bizarre." For the last 8 years he has worked for the public library system. McDonough claims to be more of a songwriter than a writer though states that while "I have written for some time without the intent of being a writer only recently has it dawned on me that, regardless of the quality of the huckster shit I produce, I probably don't have a choice."