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Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, HuffingtonPost, and numerous anthologies.  In 2001, she gave up tenureat the University of Houston (where she had been a professor and director ofthe creative writing program) and while producing and reporting radio storiesfor NPR’s Morning Edition and PRI’s ThisAmerican Life, she came across the story of artist BillyPappas.  With the encouragement of her older brother, she set out tomake Waiting for Hockney,her first film.  She graduated from Harvard College, the Iowa WritersWorkshop, and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She is the recipient of aNational Endowment for the Arts individual artist grant and fellowships atwriters’ colonies, including Yaddo. She lives in Salt Lake City with herhusband and two daughters.  Lance Larsen’s fourth collection of poems, GeniusLoci, was recently published by University of Tampa Press. His earlier collections include BackyardAlchemy (2009), In All TheirAnimal Brilliance (2005), and ErasableWalls (1998).  He holds a PhD from the University ofHouston.  His work appears widely, in such venues as Georgia Review,Southern Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, River Styx, Orion, The Pushcart PrizeAnthology, Best American Poetry 2009, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere.  Hisnonfiction has twice made the Notable Essay list in Best American Essays. He is currently working on Seventeen Waysto Float, a collection of essays about place, family, and memory,which won 1st place in the 2011 Utah Original Writing Competition.  Hegrew up in Idaho and Colorado and lived in Chile for two years while serving anLDS mission.  He collects antiques, plays basketball, occasionally walkson his hands, grows daylilies, hikes, and loves Indian and Thai food.  Hesometimes collaborates with his wife, Jacqui Biggs Larsen, a painter andmulti-media artist.  Since 1993 he has taught literature and creative writingat BYU, where he currently serves as associate chair.  He and Jacquirecently directed a study abroad program in Madrid.  In 2012, he was namedto a five-year term as Utah Poet Laureate. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts 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 ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations.       Joel Long