The USU-Eastern Library and Learning Commons would like to invite the community to attend the 6th Annual Local Author Night on Tuesday, April 9 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The evening will feature guest authors a husband and wife team and both former popular faculty members from back when the college was known as College of Eastern Utah or CEU, Nancy Takacs and Jan Minich. The duo had poems published in February in The Limberlost Review: A Literary Anthology of the Mountain West.

Nancy Takacs is a winner of the Jupiter Prize for her book of poems The Worrier. Previous books include Blue Patina (winner of the 15 Bytes Award for Poetry and finalist for the Lascaux Poetry award) and several chapbooks which as paperbacks. She spent some time after retirement teaching poetry to the inmates at the prison in Gunnison, which resulted in Radioactive Constellation: A literary magazine highlighting poets from the Central Utah Correctional Facility. She is a former literature instructor at Utah State University Eastern.

Jan Minich most recent book, Wild Roses, is of poems which traces the emotional lives of Utah outlaw women and other female historical characters. He is also the author of The Letters of Silver Dollar and two chapbooks History of Drowning and Wild Roses. He is a former wilderness studies and literature professor at Utah State University Eastern.

Each author will present 20 to 25 minutes, to allow to get a good feeling for what they have written then afterward they will have their books for sale. Guests can enjoy light refreshments, speak with the authors and take a tour of the library and learn of its services.