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Nickole Brown and Dan Gerber
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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. Her chapbook, mud, was published in 1996 by WhiteFields Press.
She also co-edited the anthology, Air Fare: Stories, Poems, & Essays on Flight, published in 2004.
Her debut collection of poetry, Sister, was published by Red Hen Press in September 2007.
Read "Footling" by Nickole Brown on Verse Daliy.
Watch Nickole Brown read"Footling" and other poems
on YouTube.
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Dan Gerber was born and grew up in western
Michigan and received his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University in 1962. He has worked as a
corporate executive, an automobile dealer, a professional racing driver, and a high school teacher.
From 1968 through 1972, with Jim Harrison, he co-edited the literary magazine Sumac. He has traveled
extensively as a journalist, particularly in Africa. He has been writer-in-residence at
Michigan State University and Grand Valley State College and has lectured, read, and taught at
numerous colleges, universities, libraries, schools, and museums throughout the United States and England.
He and his wife, Debbie, divide their year between central California and southeastern Idaho.
Dan Gerber has published three novels, a short-story collection and seven books of poems, including A Primer On Parallel Lives (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), A Last Bridge Home; New Selected Poems (1992) and Trying to Catch the Horses (Michigan State University Press, 1999). He was the recipient of the Michigan Author Award in 1992, had work selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry 1999, and received the Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contributions to Midwestern Literature in 2001. Read a poem by Dan Gerber on Poetry Daily. Listen to Dan Gerber read his poems on the Michigan State University website (requires RealPlayer). | |
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Nickole Brown is a poet and fiction writer.
She graduated from the M.F.A. Program for Creative Writing at Vermont College in January 2003.
She graduated summa cum laude from University of Louisville in 1996, studied English Literature at
Oxford University as an English Speaking Union Scholar. She was the editorial assistant for the
late Hunter S. Thompson in 1997. She has worked at a nonprofit, independent, literary press,
Sarabande Books for eight years as Director of Marketing and Development.