For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Eric Freeze and Pam Balluck to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 7th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers
Eric Freeze and Pam Balluck will read from their work on March 7th at the Salt
Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Eric Freeze is a Canadian writer from southern Alberta. He completed
a PhD in Fiction Writing at Ohio University and he has published short stories,
translations, and creative nonfiction in a variety of periodicals including
most recently Boston Review, Tampa Review, The Southern Review, The Normal School, and Harvard Review. In 2011, he was the recipient of a Canada
Council for the Arts Award (similar to a NEA fellowship) for work on a
multi-generational novel set in New Brunswick and Alberta. He currently
teaches creative writing at Wabash College
in Indiana.
Pamela Balluck is from New York, Los Angeles, and
western Montana. Her creative writing has appeared in, among other
publications, the Western Humanities Review, The Southeast Review, Quarter
After Eight, Square Lake, Jabberwock Review, Barrow Street, Pank, Night Train,
Freight Stories, Avery Anthology; and she has fiction forthcoming in the Robert
Olen Butler Prize Stories anthology and in The Ocean State Review, plus creative
nonfiction forthcoming in Prime Mincer. She graduated with an MFA in writing
fiction in 2000 and a PhD in creative writing and literature in 2008 from the
University of Utah, where she currently teaches writing.
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.