Nickole Brown’s books include her debut, Sister, a novel-in-poems, the anthology, Air Fare, that she co-edited with Judith Taylor, and the upcoming collection of poems Fanny Says. She graduated from The Vermont College of Fine Arts and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council. She worked at the independent, literary press, Sarabande Books, for ten years and was the National Publicity Consultant for Arktoi Books. She has taught creative writing at the University of Louisville, Bellarmine University, and at the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Murray State she has also taught at the Young Women Writers Project at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky. Her work has appeared in Bloom Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, Post Road, Diagram Magazine, The Oxford American, and Story South. Currently, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Series in Prose Poetry and lives in Little Rock, AR, where she is the Assistant Professor of poetry at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. To learn more about Brown and her work, visit www.nickolebrown.com.