![]() ![]() She lives with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs, in Asheville, NC, where she volunteers at a three different animal sanctuaries. Currently, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and teaches periodically at a number of places, including the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program, the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA, and the Hindman Settlement School. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for four years until she gave up her beloved time in the classroom in hope of writing full time. Her second book, a biography-in-poems called Fanny Says, came out from BOA Editions in 2015, and the audio book of that collection became available in 2017. ![]() Her first collection, Sister, a novel-in-poems, was first published in 2007 by Red Hen Press and a new edition was reissued by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2018. She worked at Sarabande Books for ten years. NICKOLE BROWNreceived her MFA from the Vermont College, studied literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. In 2021, she became the first-ever poetry editor for SIERRA magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, a Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House. Her most recent chapbook is LACE & PYRITE, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Above all, she is always on the hunt for gifted storytelling that stretches its genre to new heights.AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL (neh-ZOO / KOO-mah / tah-TILL) is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS (2020, Milkweed Editions), which was chosen as Barnes and Noble’s Book of the Year. She has four previous poetry collections: OCEANIC (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), LUCKY FISH (2011), AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO (2007), and MIRACLE FRUIT (2003), the last three from Tupelo Press. When it comes to non-fiction, she is open to fresh, smart, well-branded nonfiction in the areas of pop science, pop culture, diet, health, fitness, food, lifestyle, and humor. She loves to champion underrepresented voices and is particularly drawn to complex characters with emotional resonance, deftly braided narratives, and captivating layered plots. Since joining Folio Literary Management she's had the pleasure of working with both debut and seasoned authors alike.Īnnie is actively building her list and gravitates toward literary fiction featuring diverse characters and authentic voices rich historical fiction where the setting takes on a life of its own visceral literary thrillers with dark psychological grit and nuanced speculative fiction that explores what it means to be human in the age of technology. As a former journalist, she possesses a keen editorial eye which she brings to her approach to agenting, taking an active role in helping clients reach their full potential. Originally from Los Angeles, Annie represents literary fiction and select nonfiction. ![]()
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