For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Eric Freeze and Pam Balluck to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 7th 7:00—9:00 P.M.               Writers Eric Freeze and Pam Balluck will read from their work on March 7th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.  Eric Freeze is a Canadian writer from southern Alberta.  He completed a PhD in Fiction Writing at Ohio University and he has published short stories, translations, and creative nonfiction in a variety of periodicals including most recently Boston Review, Tampa Review, The Southern Review, The Normal School, and Harvard Review.  In 2011, he was the recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Award (similar to a NEA fellowship) for work on a multi-generational novel set in New Brunswick and Alberta.  He currently teaches creative writing at Wabash College in Indiana.   Pamela Balluck is from New York, Los Angeles, and western Montana. Her creative writing has appeared in, among other publications, the Western Humanities Review, The Southeast Review, Quarter After Eight, Square Lake, Jabberwock Review, Barrow Street, Pank, Night Train, Freight Stories, Avery Anthology; and she has fiction forthcoming in the Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories anthology and in The Ocean State Review, plus creative nonfiction forthcoming in Prime Mincer. She graduated with an MFA in writing fiction in 2000 and a PhD in creative writing and literature in 2008 from the University of Utah, where she currently teaches writing.     Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts 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 Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations.