Writers Matthew Kirkpatrick and Miles Fuller will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday September 8 at 7:00. Matthew Kirkpatrick's fiction has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, Western Humanities Review, Copper Nickel, Redivider, Gargoyle, the Notre Dame Review, Diagram, and elsewhere. He won the 2009 Utah Writers contest, judged by Ben Marcus, and was included in the 2010 Best of the Web anthology and the 2009 &Now Awards anthology. He has been awarded a fellowship to the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Miles Fuller is an MFA candidate in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. His poetry and prose have received accolades through the Academy of American Poets, AWP, a Pushcart nomination, Honorable Mention in Best American Essays, and most recently, Fuller won the 2010 Alligator Juniper Essay Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in The Bellingham Review, Quarterly West, The Portland Review, and Ellipsis. In addition, while working as an instructor at the University of Iowa, Miles Fuller’s students have named him, “Captain Fuller,” reiterating his position as the saltiest and most nautically aware writer in American letters. 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. Joel Long