Guest Writers Series with Sarah Blackman and Jamie L. Smith

Each year, the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah brings distinguished authors to Salt Lake City. Our goal is to provide our community with an opportunity to engage in a dynamic, educational and inspiring relationship with literature. We aim to bring in a diverse array of voices and perspectives, and to provide a platform for an enriching dialogue between our authors and the audience.

All events are free and open to the public.

Sarah Blackman is the author of the story collection Mother Box, winner of the 2012 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize, and the novel Hex, both published by FC2. She is the co-fiction editor of DIAGRAM and the founding editor of Crashtest, an online magazine for high school age writers, which she edits alongside her students at the Fine Arts Center, a public arts high school in Greenville, South Carolina.

Jamie L. Smith is the author of the chapbook Flawed Mythologies. Her poetry, photos, and creative nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in publications including Ruminate, the Bellevue Literary Review, Pigeon Pages, the San Antonio Review, Salt Front, Not-Very-Quiet, and Tusculum Review, as well as recent anthologies by Indie Blu(e) and Allegory Ridge. She is a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah.