Writers Lance Larsen and Nicole Sheets will read from their work on October 7that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. Lance Larsen (PhD, University of Houston) is the author of two poetry collections: Erasable Walls and In All Their Animal Brilliance, the latter of which won the Tampa Review Prize. His poems have appeared in New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Grand Street, New England Review, Times Literary Supplement, Kenyon Review, New Republic, The Pushcart Book of Poetry: the Best Poems from the First 30 Years, and elsewhere. In 2005, he co-directed a semester-long study abroad program in London and taught creative nonfiction. A professor of English at BYU, he currently serves as associate chair. Former poetry editor at Gulf Coast, he has received grants and awards from The Cultural Arts Council of Houston, the Joseph Campbell Society, the Utah Arts Council, Sewanee, and Writers at Work. He is married to Jacqui Larsen, a painter and mixed-media artist. Nicole Sheets’ essays and book reviews have appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Pilgrimage, and Quarterly West, and an essay is forthcoming in the anthology Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical (Cascade Press, 2009). Sheets is a past winner of the Utah Writers’ Contest, sponsored by Western Humanities Review, and the Richard Scowcroft Prize in prose, from the University of Utah Department of English. Sheets has written for several newspapers and magazines in her home state of West Virginia and for Ziarul de Garda, a weekly newspaper in the Republic of Moldova. Before moving to Utah, Sheets taught English in Moldova as a Peace Corps volunteer. For the last five summers, she’s been on the faculty of the West Virginia Governor’s Honors Academy, a program for high school seniors, where she’s taught cooking, creative writing, and a little bit of yoga. Sheets lives in Salt Lake City and is finishing up a Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Utah. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.