KB Brookins

KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer, cultural worker, and visual artist from Texas. Their most recent book is the memoir, Pretty (Knopf, 2024), which Publishers Weekly called “dazzling.” Their other books are the poetry collections Freedom House (Deep Vellum, 2023), described as “urgent and timely” by Vogue, winner of  the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for the Best First Book of Poetry, and How to Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022), winner of the Saguaro Poetry Prize, a Writer’s League of Texas Discovery Prize, and a Stonewall Honor Book Award.  Their writing is featured in Poets.org, HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Poetry Society of America, Oxford American, and elsewhere.