For Vault members, Nickole Brown recorded the two poems she contributed to the anthology Language Lessons published by Third Man Books. Both poems are excerted from her book titled Fanny Says, Nickole describes the book as "a biography-in-poems about her grandmother, Frances Lee Cox.” So, sit back and hear what Fanny says, she’s full of surprises and the most colorful music of language. Check out a download of her readings here

For a more detailed look at Nickole, Fanny, and the book Fanny Says, read this interview.

A brief biography: Nickole Brown grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and Deerfield Beach, Florida. Her books include Fanny Says, a collection of poems forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2015; her debut, Sister, a novel-in-poems published by Red Hen Press in 2007; and an anthology, Air Fare, that she co-edited with Judith Taylor. She graduated from The Vermont College of Fine Arts, studied literature at Oxford University as an English Speaking Union Scholar, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council. She worked at the independent, literary press, Sarabande Books, for ten years, and she was the National Publicity Consultant for Arktoi Books and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. She has taught creative writing at the University of Louisville, Bellarmine University, and at the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Murray State. Currently, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Series in Prose Poetry at White Pine Press and is on faculty every summer at the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference. She is an Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas at Little Rock and lives with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs. For more information about Nickole Brown visit her website.