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Nickole Brown

Nickole Brown is the author of Sister and Fanny Says. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she volunteers at several animal sanctuaries. To Those Who Were Our First Gods, a chapbook of poems about these animals, won the 2018 Rattle Prize, and Brown’s essay-in-poems, The Donkey Elegies, was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2020. In 2021, Spruce Books of Penguin Random House published Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire, coauthored with Jessica Jacobs, with whom Brown teaches generative writing sessions as part of their SunJune Literary Collaborative. She is also on the faculty of the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program.