Writers Halina Duraj and Christopher Patton will read from their works for the City Art Reading Series on January 9th 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. Christopher Patton's first book, Ox, was published by Signal Editions of Vehicule Press in 2007. Patton's poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, The Malahat Review, and The Fiddlehead, and were anthologized in The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. In 2000, he was awarded The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry. Patton writes, and tends his apple trees, on Salt Spring Island. 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping