[close] Nickole Brown is a poet and fiction writer. She graduated from the M.F.A. Program for Creative Writing at Vermont College in January 2003. She has received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky Arts Council. She graduated summa cum laude from University of Louisville in 1996, studied English Literature at Oxford University as an English Speaking Union Scholar, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson in 1997. She has also served as the Program Coordinator for the Union Institute & University writing residency in Slovenia since 2003 and as Publicity Consultant for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival since 2005.

Her debut collection of poetry, Sister, was published by Red Hen Press in September 2007. Her work has been featured in The Writer's Chronicle, Poets & Writers, Another Chicago Magazine, Diagram Magazine, 32 Poems, The Lumberyard, The Cortland Review, Post Road, and Mammoth Books' Sudden Stories anthology, and she was a finalist for writing competitions at Dogwood, Kestrel Review, and Chautauqua Literary Journal. Her chapbook, mud, was published in 1996 by WhiteFields Press. She also co-edited the anthology, Air Fare: Stories, Poems, & Essays on Flight, published in 2004. Most recently, her work has been featured in the Starcherone Press anthology PP / FF , Florida Review, and Chautauqua Literary Journal.

She has given a number of readings, including events at New York's Waldorf Astoria with Garrison Keillor in 1993; at NYU with poets Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg in 1994; at Fellows Garden, England, in 1996; and most recently, at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the Bowery Poetry Club. Since 2002, she has participated in several panels on publishing, including presentations at the Associated Writing Programs Conference, Bellarmine University, The Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Florida Literary Arts Conference, The Oxford Conference for the Book, and Ball State University.

Nickole has worked at a nonprofit, independent, literary press, Sarabande Books for eight years as Director of Marketing and Development. There she has helped to garner national attention for the press and its authors, including reviews at The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She has arranged over 70 author tours. With over 100 titles in print or under contract, this twelve year-old press is considered to be one of the strongest independents in the country.

Nickole currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with a fuzzy mutt named Billie Holiday, a light-chasing collie named Oscar Wild, and a flying ninja cat, Mister Miagi.

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