Nicole Brown

All our readings are free and open to the public.

Nicole Brown is the author of The Donkey Elegies, To Those Who Were Our First Gods, Fanny Says,  and Sister. Early in her career, Brown was an editorial assistant for Hunter S. Thompson. She later worked for ten years at Sarabande Books and served as a coeditor for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series with poet Robert Alexander. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council, Brown has taught, among other places, at the University of North Carolina–Wilmington and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She was the 2024 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University and is currently a fellow at the Black Earth Institute. Every summer, she teaches in the Sewanee School of Letters low-residency MFA program.