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	Hector Ahumada Poet Héctor Ahumada is a Chilean artist, a naturalized US citizen. Recipient of Salt Lake’s 1996 Mayor’s Literary Award in Literature, first place in Canto Hispano, Human Pursuits 1995, and an Honorary Mention from Arica University, Chile in a poetry contest for non academic poets. In Chile he studied at the... More
	Autumn Augustus Actor - Choreographer - Dancer - Poet - Storyteller - Writer Autumn is the instigator of Cirkus Pandemonium, salt lake's resident cirkus troupe. We do aerial silks, trapeze, acrobalance, juggling, hoops, dancing, fire dancing, vaudeville, music and much more! We are avaiable for private parties and public events of all sizes! More
	Lisa Bickmore Poet Lisa Bickmore's work has appeared in Quarterly West, Mudfish, Caketrain, Hunger Mountain Review, and Tar River Poetry, among other publications. Her book of poems, Haste, was published by Signature Press. She received the Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts at the Utah Arts Festival and was a winner of the... More
	R. Geoffrey Blackburn Poet - Visual Artist - Writer Uranium Prospector Turned Artist during the last great uranium boom of the 1970's, I co-owned and operated a mining and exploration company, North American Resources Corp. based in Salt Lake City, operating out of Moab, Utah. I prospected, staked claims, drilled, and promoted uranium properties all over the Colorado Plateau.... More
	Melissa Bond Poet The espresso version, in third person: Never was a skinny girl, always was a small girl, always had to jump. Wrote on her mattress at night, burning adolescent smoke and fire. It started here, with heat and brooding and a Jim Morrison crush, big as a movie. Years pass: She... More
	David Bullock Poet - Storyteller - Writer A decendent of Utah Pioneers, he claims to have captured the illusive Tommyknocker, been haunted by ghosts, even rescued the dead. He’s searched for and discovered treasures, buried deep in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. He CLAIMS to be: a miner, trapper, famous Bear hunter; even a rodeo cowboy! He... More
	Marilyn Bushman-Carlton Poet Marilyn Bushman-Carlton was named the 1999 Utah Poet of the Year by the Utah Poetry Society. She has been a Utah Arts Council Artist-in-Residence, UAC Artist Grant recipient, and prize-winner in the UAC Original Writing Competition. Her two anthologies, on keeping things small and Cheat Grass, have received critical praise,... More
	Alex Caldiero Poet Alex Caldiero: Born in 1949, in the ancient town of Licodia Eubea, near Catania, Sicily, he immigrated to the United States at age nine and was raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York. He attended Queens College in Flushing, New York, and was apprenticed to the sculptor Michael Lekakis and... More
	Rob Carney Poet Rob Carney is the author of two books—Weather Report (Somondoco P, 2006) and Boasts, Toasts, and Ghosts (Pinyon P, 2003), both winners of the Utah Book Award for Poetry—and two chapbooks: New Fables, Old Songs (Dream Horse P, 2003) and This Is One Sexy Planet (Frank Cat P, 2005). His... More
	Elaine Christensen Poet Elaine Wright Christensen, Utah’s Poet of the Year in 1990, has two collections of poetry: At The Edges and I Have Learned 5 Things. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Ensign, Weber Studies, Ellipsis, Dialogue, Petroglyph, and The Comstock Review, where she placed first in the Muriel... More
	Chris Cokinos Poet Chris Cokinos is the winner of a Whiting Award. His books, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds and The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, are available from Tarcher/Penguin. He has won grants and awards from the National Science Foundation, the American... More
	Katharine Coles Poet Katharine Coles' books include the novels FIRE SEASON and THE MEASURABLE WORLD and four collections of poems, FAULT, THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION, A HISTORY OF THE GARDEN, and THE ONE RIGHT TOUCH. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in THE PARIS REVIEW, THE... More
	Star Coulbrooke Poet Star Coulbrooke co-authored a 2003 chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press), with her mentor, the late Kenneth W. Brewer, former poet laureate of Utah. Her 2008 manuscript, River Once Removed, received finalist designations in the May Swenson Contest (Utah State University Press) and the Philip Levine Contest (UC Irvine),... More
	Chrystal Davey Actor - Choreographer - Dancer - Poet - Singer - Writer I have been dancing since the age of 2; I have trained in ballet, modern dance, funky/hip-hop, music video dancing, choreographing, house, some latin american dancing, and others. I have trained vocally in various theatres and choirs, as well as one year of private voice lessons. My experience in acting... More
	Diamond Jim Davis Actor - Comedian - Poet - Storyteller If Harry Potter and Annie Oakley were to have a son you'd get: Diamond Jim Davis! Introducing Diamond Jim. An award winning entertainer and magician who has performed for over 20 years. He was a cowboy entertainer and the house magician at The Wagonmaster Restaurant in Murray Utah for nearly... More
	Mike Dorrell Poet Mike Dorrell is originally from Swansea, Wales, and has lived in Utah for many years. He is the author of over a dozen produced plays for stage, radio and television. In Britain, he has worked with companies like Paines Plough, Avon Touring, Theatre Powys and BBC Radio 4. Here in... More
	Craig Dworkin Poet Craig Dworkin is the author of Dure (Cuneiform, 2004), Strand (Roof, 2005), and Parse (Atelos, forthcoming). A suite of his poetry in translation was featured in Pleine Marge (no. 39). He teaches at the University of Utah, where he also edits The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing and Eclipse. More
	Brian Jackson Fetzer Actor - Comedian - Composer - Director - Filmmaker - Graphic Designer - Musician - Poet - Producer - Singer - Storyteller - Writer More
	Gabrielle Gaston Actor - Comedian - Musician - Poet Gabrielle Laurel Gaston Personal Information:. gabi.gaston@gmail.com Hair Color: Blonde Phone:(801) 673-6768 Eye Color: Blue-green Weight: 135 lbs Height: 5' 8" Range: Mezzo- Soprano Stage Experience Lady Capulet “Ring Around the Moon” Sarah Shippobotham Verges “Much Ado About Nothing” Jane Page Chorus/Messenger “Medea” Sandra Shotwell Elvira’s Maid “Don Giovanni” Nicolette Molnar... More
	Mark Gollaher Actor - Poet - Singer - Storyteller - UAC Teaching Artist - Visual Artist - Writer MARK GOLLAHER AEA (801) 916-5004 Height: 6’2” Eyes: Hazel Hair: Dark Brown Voice: High Baritone SELECTED PROFESSIONAL THEATRE ROLES THE CLEAN HOUSE Charles Salt Lake Acting Co. ALIENATION EFFECT Various Plan B Theatre Co. PETER PAN Hook/Mr. Darling Egyptian Theatre Co. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Lumiere Tuacahn Center COMPANY Bobby... More
	Matthew Hall Graphic Designer - Photographer - Poet - Visual Artist - Writer Currently employed as a designer, and developing my art career. More info at my website: www.matthewhall.info Artwork includes: Ceramics, Poetry/print/appropriation, altered texts, figure drawings, and photography. More
	Mike Hardy Actor - Director - Filmmaker - Poet - Producer - Visual Artist - Writer MIKE HARDY - RESUME Talent Management Group, Inc. 339 East 3900 South, Suite 210 Salt Lake City, UT 84107 801-263-6940 / Phone 801-263-6950 / Fax Eyes Blue Hair Brown Height 5 feet 10 in Weight 195 lbs Size 44R FILM: 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Beer Guy Farah Films... More
	Heidi Hart Musician - Poet - Singer - UAC Teaching Artist - Writer Heidi Hart is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and singer based in Salt Lake City. Her books include the memoir GRACE NOTES (University of Utah Press, 2004) and the four-poet collection EDGE BY EDGE (Toadlily Press, 2007). Heidi holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied both poetry and... More
	Jean Howard Poet After living In Chicago for 22 years, performance poet, Jean Howard, returned to her hometown, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1999. Her poetry has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Burning World, Spoon River Review, Chicago Tribune, among over one hundred other literary publications. A participant in the original development of... More
	And...Go! Improv Comedy Actor - Comedian - Poet - Singer - Storyteller - Visual Artist - Improv And...Go! is an improv comedy troupe that started in April of 2008 by Dominic Bohne and Rob Hickman. It started out as just a hobby for a few of Dominic and Rob's friends to get together and perform for each other and no one else in particular, meeting at a... More
	Ronald Jensen Poet - Storyteller I work in an elementary school library, and I like to read stories to the kids there. I've also read at a Summer Reading Club for Kids and at a Story Time at a local park. Last winter I told a story at the Clearfeld Stortelling Festival, and I'm planning... More
	Kimberly Johnson Poet Kimberly Johnson is the author of two collections of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God (Persea Books, 2002 and 2008), and of a translation of Virgil's Georgics (Penguin Classics, 2009). Her poetry, translations, and scholarly essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker, Slate, The... More
	D Jones Poet - Writer Hello. I am a poet and writer who lives in the Salt Lake City Area. While I have always loved reading the poems of E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost and others, I did not begin writing poems (or even think about writing poems) until my late 30s. I wrote... More
	Collin Kreuzer Actor - Comedian - Director - Poet - Producer - Storyteller - Visual Artist - Writer The Founder and President of the Academy of Performing Arts. Principal Director on the Phoenix Theatre Stage. Collin has been involved in the artistic community since the age of ten. He wrote, produced and directed his first play in elementary school and has been an active player in the entertainment... More
	Lance Larsen Poet Lance Larsen (Ph.D., University of Houston) is the author of three poetry collections: Backyard Alchemy (2009),In All Their Animal Brilliance (2005), and Erasable Walls (1998). His poems have appeared in New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry Daily, TLE, Quarterly West, Slate, The Pushcart Book of Poetry,... More