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 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 VCFA writing residency in Slovenia and as Publicity Consultant for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. She works as a freelance publicist for Arktoi Books and Persea Books. Currently, she also is a Lecturer at Bellarmine University and teaches at the University of Louisville and at the low-residency MFA Program at Murray State.

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. 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, 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. Most recently, she gave over 60 readings for Sister, reading in venues in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Virginia, Ann Arbor, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, and Portland, Oregon. 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 Virginia Festival of the Book, The Oxford Conference for the Book, and Ball State University.

Nickole worked at a 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 fifteen year-old 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.

Nickole currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with Lisa Hunt. There they tend to their fuzz-bucket farm that includes a mutt named Billie Holiday, a light-chasing collie named Oscar Wild, and two flying ninja cats, Mister Miagi and Little Man. They are currently investing stock in chew bones and premium vacuum cleaners.