ALA 2010 Annual Conference Program and Exhibit Directory

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Nickole Brown, Sister (Red Hen Press). Nickole
Brown graduated from The Vermont College of Fine
Arts 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. Currently, she is the Editor for the Marie
Alexander Series in Prose Poetryat White Pine
Press and a National Publicity Consultant for Arktoi
Books. She lives in Louisville where she is Lecturer
at the University of Louisville and Bellarmine
University and teaches at MFA Program in Creative
Writing at Murray State.
Henri Cole, Pierce the Skin (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux). Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan,
in 1956. He is the recipient of fellowships from
the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as
multiple awards, including the Rome Prize in