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KB Brookins | |
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 Brookins at the 2024 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | August 28, 1995 Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Texas Christian University (BA) University of Texas at Austin (MFA) |
| Genres | Poetry, Creative Nonfiction |
| Notable works | Pretty: A Memoir, Freedom House, How To Identify Yourself With a Wound |
| Notable awards | National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, Stonewall Book Award, Lambda Literary Award |
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KB Brookins (born August 28, 1995) is a Black American author. Brookins is a 2023 Creative Writing fellow with the National Endowment for the Arts and the author of three books: How To Identify Yourself with a Wound, Freedom House, and Pretty: A Memoir.[1][2]
Early life and Career
[edit | edit source]Brookins was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas.[3] They attended Texas Christian University and graduated in 2017.[4] Their work is often described as hopeful, unique, and candid.[5][6][7]
Freedom House explores themes of race, transgender identity, and gentrification among others.[8][9][10] Vogue called their writing style in the book "urgent and timely while still holding space for the possibility of a life lived on one’s own terms."[11] Freedom House won the 2024 Stonewall Book Award Barbara Gittings Literature Award and an award with the Texas Institute of Letters.[12][13] It was named a best book of 2023 by Autostraddle, The Texas Observer, Ms., and Chicago Review of Books.[14][15][16]
In 2024, Brookins published their debut memoir called Pretty.[17][18] It has gotten favorable reviews in Kirkus Reviews and GLAAD among other venues.[19][20][21] Pretty won the 2025 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction.[22]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Brookins is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.[23]
Works
[edit | edit source]Books
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Poems
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- “T Shot #5: Ode to My Sharps Container” (republished). Metro Weekly. 2023
- "Remix #2". Kenyon Review. 2023[28]
- "What's On Your Mind, KB?". Cincinnati Review. 2023[29]
- "Love Machine". Split This Rock. 2023[30]
- “Good Grief”. Academy of American Poets (Poem-A-Day). 2022[31]
- "Poem Against Black ____ Magic". Poetry Northwest. 2022[32]
- “KB’s Origin Story”, “Yebba’s Heartbreak”. Electric Literature. 2022[33]
- “& Somehow, Men Are Nicer to me Now”. American Poetry Review. 2022[34]
Essays
[edit | edit source]- “KB Brookins on T Shot #4”. Poetry Society of America. 2023[35]
- "Freedom House: A Sonic Bibliography". Oxford American. 2023[36]
- "Trans Texans Are Being Surveilled, This Is Everyone’s Issue". Autostraddle. 2022[37]
- "How Kendrick Lamar Stumbles Toward Queer And Trans Allyship On 'Auntie Diaries'". Okayplayer. 2022[38]
- "This Is What It's Like Going To The Gynecologist When You're Black, Trans And In Texas". HuffPost. 2022[39]
- "Why Coming Out to My Family Isn't on My Holiday To-Do List". Teen Vogue. 2021[40]
Zines
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Art Exhibits
[edit | edit source]- Freedom House: An Exhibition. 2024[43]
In Anthology
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Awards and fellowships
[edit | edit source]- 2018 Lambda Literary Foundation Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellow (Poetry)[44]
- 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow (Poetry) [45]
- 2022 Academy of American Poets Treehouse Climate Action Prize Recipient [46][47]
- 2022 Writer's League of Texas Discovery Prizer Winner - Poetry
- 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow[48]
- 2023 Stonewall Book Award Honor Book[49]
- 2023 Texas Institute of Letters Award[12]
- 2024 Stonewall Book Award Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry[50]
- 2025 Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Dorothy Allison / Felice Picano Emerging Writer Award[51]
- 2025 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in Creative Non-Fiction[52]
- 2025 ACLU of Texas Artist-in-Residence[53]
- 2025 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Social Justice Fellow (Nonfiction)[54]
- 2025 Shearing Fellowship at the Black Mountain Institute[55]
- 2025 Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction[22]
References
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