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KB Brookins

About

KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. They authored 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), recommended by Vogue and Autostraddle among others. KB’s writing is published in Poets.org, HuffPost, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. They are a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts fellow. KB’s memoir Pretty (Alfred A. Knopf) releases in 2024. Follow them online at @earthtokb.

Articles

Issue 117, Summer 2022

“Channel Orange” Taught Me

In a lineup of me, my kings, and every Black boy I grew up with, you’ll find some kind of desire, and wounds—many of which can be attributed to performing masculinity.

By KB Brookins
Web Feature

Freedom House: A Sonic Bibliography

Before I knew what a poem was, I was a kid who carried around a CD player and clunky headphones, bobbing along to bops.

By KB Brookins