Headshot of KB Brookins

KB Brookins (they/them) is a Black, queer, trans writer; a cultural worker; and an artist from Texas. They are the author of How to Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022), winner of the Saguaro Poetry Prize and an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in Literature, and Freedom House (Deep Vellum, 2023). Their writing appears on Poets.org and the Poetry Society of America website, in HuffPost and Poetry magazine, and in other outlets. They are a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.