Book Launch: Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Nickole Brown, Melissa Crowe, & Jessica Jacobs

Please join us to welcome four new books into the world: Laure-Anne Bosselaar’s These Many Rooms (Four Way Books), Nickole Brown’s To Those Who Were Our First Gods (Rattle), Melissa Crowe’s Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (U of Wisconsin Press), and Jessica Jacobs’ Take Me With You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books). Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the reading will begin at 7 p.m, followed by a signing. Light refreshments will be provided.
Contact: Jessica Jacobs

Please join us to celebrate the new publications of Nickole Brown, Melissa Crowe, Jessica Jacobs, and Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Doors will open at 6:30 and readings will begin 7-ish, with signing and refreshments to follow. We hope to see you there!

About our readers:
Nickole Brown is the author of Sister, first published in 2007 with a new edition reissued by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2018. Her second book, Fanny Says, came out from BOA Editions and won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry in 2015. Talking Books published the audiobook of that collection in 2017. She is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program, the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA, and the Hindman Settlement School. She lives in Asheville, where she periodically volunteers at a four different animal sanctuaries. Her chapbook, To Those Who Were Our First Gods, recently won the 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize.

Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), and her work has appeared in Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, and Seneca Review, among other journals. She’s co-editor of Beloit Poetry Journal and coordinator of the University of North Carolina’s MFA program in creative writing. A native of Maine’s Big North Woods, she lives in Wilmington, NC.

Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going, published by Four Way Books in March 2019. Her debut collection, Pelvis with Distance, a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe, was winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She serves as the Associate Editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal and teaches for UNCA’s Great Smokies Writing Program.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Small Gods of Grief, winner of the Isabella Gardner Prize, and of A New Hunger, selected as a Notable Book by the ALA. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and the editor of four poetry anthologies, she teaches at the Solstice Low Residency MFA Program. Sungold Editions published her chapbook Rooms Remembered. Her fifth collection, These Many Rooms is just out from Four Way Books.