Thu, 04/22/2010 - 7:00pm Location: Finch Lane Gallery | Art Barn 1340 East 100 South Salt Lake City, Utah The Guest Writers Series, sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts Council and the University of Utah English Department / Creative Writing Program, continues on Thursday, April 22, 2010 with fiction writer Carole Maso and poet Elise Partridge at the Finch Lane Gallery /Art Barn (in Reservoir Park). The reading begins at 7:00 p.m. Carole Maso’s literary career can only be described as meteoric. Among the various awards she has received are the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction (1993), National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant (1988), National Endowment for the Arts Emerging Artist Reading Grant (1987), New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (1987) and the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts (1985). Works she has published include The American Woman in the Chinese Hat (1994), Pandora’s Box, a screenplay (1993), Ava (1993), The Art Lover (1990) and Ghost Dance (1986), among others. Elise Partridge‘s Fielder’s Choice (2002) was shortlisted for the Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poems in Canada. Her second book, Chameleon Hours (2008) was featured in the “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post. Chameleon Hours was nominated for the British Columbia Book Prize in poetry and won the 2009 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, which recognizes “poetry that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal.” Partridge’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in American, Canadian, British, and Irish journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry (Chicago), The New Republic, The Yale Review, The Southern Review and elsewhere. Her work has been broadcast on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and on CBC radio, and has appeared on Poetry Daily as well as on the Vancouver and Toronto transit systems. The American Woman in the Chinese Hat (Paperback)$16.00 ISBN-13: 9780452275072Availability: Not In Stock - Available to Order Published: Plume, 09/01/2005 Ava (Paperback)$12.95 ISBN-13: 9781564780744Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability Published: Dalkey Archive Press, 05/01/2002 The Art Lover (Paperback)$14.95 ISBN-13: 9780811216296Availability: Not In Stock - Available to Order Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 06/01/2006 Ghost Dance (Paperback)ISBN-13: 9780880014090 Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability Published: Ecco, 06/01/1995 Fielder's Choice (Paperback)ISBN-13: 9781550651706 Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability Published: Signal Editions, 11/01/2002 Chameleon Hours (Paperback)$15.00 ISBN-13: 9780226647920Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: University of Chicago Press, 03/01/2008 |
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