Author Nickole Brown will come to the University of Memphis Wednesday, Feb. 17.
The River City Writer’s Series hosts respected authors at the U of M in an effort to help creative writing students learn all aspects of writing while they seek their degrees. The event has served the Memphis area since 1977 and is sponsored by the Student Event Allocation, the English Department, the Creative Writing Club and the Hohenberg Foundation.
Brown will have an interview at 10:30 a.m. in Patterson Hall. She will read her work in the University Center Beale Room at 6:30 p.m. The events are free, and anyone may attend.
Brown was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and spent most of her childhood in Deerfield Beach, Florida. She graduated from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and continued her studies of literature at Oxford University.
She has written Fanny Says, Sister and co-edited Air Fare.
The National Endowment has recognized her work for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky Arts Council.
She has taught creative writing in Louisville at both the University of Louisville and Bellarmine University. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas.
She plans to move to Ashville, North Carolina, in May.
