University of Utah Creative Writing professor Karen Brennan will read from her work and Singer/songwriter Whitney Mower will perform September 17th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. Karen Brennan is the author of five books, which include the creative genres of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. She has been awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship for fiction, an AWP award for fiction and received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her Memoir, BEING WITH RACHEL. Her work appears in anthologies from Norton, Graywolf, University of Georgia Press, Longman, and St. Martin's, among others. Since 1993, she has taught in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Utah and is permanent faculty at Warren Wilson's MFA for Writers in North Carolina. Whitney Mower is a musician and poet from Provo. She currently plays with her indy, can we say “darling,” band, Death and the Orange. Some say of Whitney M. that she alone bore witness to the assembly of our cosmos, that she and none more beheld the placement of burning alabaster stars and planets upon the nothing-blanket of space. Whitney M. is said to have followed the degenerating spine of American railroad, up and down, for two decades in the least, espied by passing hobos and often mistaken for illusion or specter, stopping only to feed animals downed by bullet or motor and sing to those world-beaten men and women weary for elevation. If conjecture is to be believed, Whitney M. presently roams the steamy recesses of the Texas landscape, guitar and banjo crisscrossing her shoulders, harmonica clasped betwixt her razor teeth, visions of mythology forever in her thoughts, spooling unceasingly like film in a derelict drive-in projector. Whether blossoms or pestilence grows in her footsteps is unconfirmed. 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.