Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City Art Presents Courtney Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni BrownWilkinson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 23rd 7:00—9:00 P.M.               CourtneyCraggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson will share new work from theirrecent books published by Black Lawrence Press, 7:00 PM,  October 23rd atthe Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. Courtney Craggett holds a PhD in English with specializations increative writing and multi-ethnic American literature from the University ofNorth Texas, where she taught English and served as the American LiteraryReview’s Assistant Fiction Editor. Her short stories appear in The Pinch,Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Booth, Juked, Word Riot, andMonkeybicycle, among others, and were featured on Ploughshares’ blog. Herreviews appear in American Microreviews and Interviews. Twice nominated for aPushcart, Courtney is the editors’ choice winner of the 2014 Sherwood AndersonAward and the winner of The Pinch’s Spring 2017 Featured Contributor Award. Sheis an Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University. Rob Carney is originally from Washington state. He is the author of fourprevious books, including 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press 2015), which was named afinalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Weather Report (SomondocoPress 2006), which won the Utah Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared inCave Wall, Poecology, Sugar House Review, Terrain: A Journal of the Built andNatural Environments, and dozens of other journals, as well as the Nortonanthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). In 2014 he received the RobinsonJeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for seven of the poems included in hisforthcoming collection The Book of Sharks. He is a Professor of English andLiterature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City. Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry has been published in Crab OrchardReview, Adirondack Review, BODY, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, SouthernIndiana Review and other journals and anthologies and has been nominated fortwo Pushcarts. She holds an MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers atEastern Washington University and teaches at Weber State University. She livesin northern Utah with her husband and three young sons. This event is made possible with support from Weber State University LindquistCollege of Arts and Humanities, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities..   The event is freeand 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 audiencedonations.      Joel Long