Three Local Authors: Poets Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs, and Novelist Kevin McIlvoy

UNC Asheville’s Creative Writing Program presents a reading by three local authors – poets Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs, and novelist Kevin McIlvoy – at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum, free and open to everyone.

Brown, Jacobs and McIlvoy are members of the faculty of UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program. Brown is the author of Sister, now being reissued, and two award-winning collections – Fanny Says, and To Those Who Were Our First Gods. Jacobs’ debut, a biography-in-poems about Georgia O’Keeffe called Pelvis with Distance, won the New Mexico Book Award. McIlvoy’s fifth novel, At the Gate of Wonder, was published last year, and his short fiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Southern Review and Ploughshares.