Nickole Brown is a poet and fiction writer. She graduated from the M.F.A. Program for Creative Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts in January 2003. She has received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She graduated summa cum laude from University of Louisville, 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 VCFA writing residency in Slovenia, as Publicity Consultant for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and the October 2009 Guest Editor for Connotations Press.

Her debut collection of poetry, Sister, was published by Red Hen Press. Her work has been featured in The Writer's Chronicle, Poets & Writers, Another Chicago Magazine, Diagram Magazine, 32 Poems, The Lumberyard, Florida Review, Chautauque Literary Journal, The Cortland Review, Post Road, and Mammoth Books' Sudden Stories anthology, among others. She also co-edited the anthology, Air Fare: Stories, Poems, & Essays on Flight, published in 2004.

Most recently, her work has been featured in Iron Horse Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, and through the Academy of American Poet's Poem-A-Day project.  Currently, she is working on her next manuscript, Down The Center Line of Spine. A poem this unpublished collection won the Orlando Poetry Prize from A Room of Her Own Foundation in 2010.

She has given a number of readings, beginning with 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. When Sister was published in 2007, she went on tour, giving over 70 readings in venues in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Virginia, Ann Arbor, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, and Portland, Oregon.

Nickole worked at the nonprofit, independent, literary press, Sarabande Books for ten years as Director of Marketing and Development. There she 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 85 author tours. With over 100 titles in print or under contract, this press is considered to be one of the strongest independents in the country. In November of 2008, Publishers Weekly ran an article featuring her work as a publicist for independent presses.

Since 2002, she has participated in over a dozen panels on publishing, including presentations at the Associated Writing Programs Conference, The Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Florida Literary Arts Conference, The Virginia Festival of the Book, The Oxford Conference for the Book, and Ball State University. She has taught at Bellarmine University, University of Louisville, and Murray State University.

Currently, Nickole lives in Little Rock, AR, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. She is the Co-editor, with Robert Alexander, for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series at White Pine Press as well as the National Publicity Consultant for Arktoi Books.