Nickole Brown is author of Sister as well as Fanny Says, which won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian poetry. To Those Who Were Our First Gods won the 2018 Rattle Prize, and her essay-in-poems, The Donkey Elegies, was published in 2020. Currently, she lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she volunteers at several animal sanctuaries and is president of the Hellbender Gathering of Poets, a nonprofit that aims to nurture a community hell-bent on finding the words that protect and repair our climate-changed world. Every summer, she teaches as part of the low-residency MFA Program at the Sewanee School of Letters.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMANS & NATURE:
“Prayer to Be Still and Know,” a poem in Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature (Humans & Nature Press, 2026).
Poetry co-editor of Elementals, a five-volume series (Humans & Nature Press, 2024). Also contributed a poem, “The Scat of It,” to Elementals: Earth, Vol. 1.
The poems “A Prayer to Talk to Animals” and “Mercy” appeared, respectively, in Vol. 3, Partners and Vol. 5, Practice of the five-volume series Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Humans & Nature Press, 2021).
- Mercy
From Minding Nature’s Winter 2021, Volume 14, Number 1 issue.
