Just in time for Women's History Month, the Montevallo Literary Festival is proud to feature four amazing women--Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, Amy Lemmon, and Catherine Wing. These four poets will read from their respective works at this year's festival, now in its 13th year.
The Montevallo Literary Festival is
scheduled for Friday, March 20 from noon until 6:00 p.m. at the Carmichael
Library. The event is free to the public. For more information, visit the Montevallo Literary Festival's website.
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About the Poets
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. (from the author's website)
Jessica Jacobs grew up in Central
Florida and has since lived in San Francisco and New York, with stints in
Greece, Indiana, and Arkansas along the way. Her work has appeared in Beloit
Poetry Journal, Cave Wall, Iron Horse, The Missouri Review, Poet Lore, and
Rattle, among other journals and anthologies. She holds a B.A. from Smith
College and an M.F.A. from Purdue University. An avid long-distance runner,
Jessica has worked as a rock climbing instructor, bartender, textbook
Acquisitions Editor, Editor-in-Chief of Sycamore Review, and now as a 2014-15
Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Hendrix College. She lives in Little
Rock, AR with her wife, the poet Nickole Brown. Pelvis With Distance is her debut
collection. (from the author's website)
Amy Lemmon is the author of two poetry
collections: Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody
(Red Hen Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters,
Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Barrow Street, and many
other magazines and anthologies. She is co-author, with Denise Duhamel, of the
poetry chapbooks ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010) and Enjoy Hot or Iced:
Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2011). Amy holds
a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati. She is
Professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology and lives with her
two children in Astoria, Queens. (from the author's blog Saint Nobody)
Poet Catherine Wing was born in
Louisville, Kentucky, and attended Brown University before earning her MFA from
the University of Washington. Her collections of poetry include Enter Invisible
(2005), nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Gin & Bleach
(2012). Her poetry has appeared in such journals as Poetry, The Nation, and The
Chicago Review and has been featured in a number of anthologies, including Best
American Poetry (2010). Wing has received fellowships and residencies from
Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and teaches
poetry at Kent State. (from Poetry Foundation)
