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KB Brookins

KB Brookins
KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. They are the author of Freedom House and How to Identify Yourself with a Wound. Brookins has poems, essays, and installation art published in Academy of American Poets, Teen Vogue, Poetry Magazine, Prizer Arts & Letters, Okayplayer, Poetry Society of America, Autostraddle, and other venues. They have earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, Equality Texas, and others.


Expanding Words, Worlds, and Permissions to Be: Five Powerful Trans Books

KB Brookins Recommends Leslie Feinberg, Akwaeke Emezi, C. Riley Snorton, and More
July 8, 2024  By KB Brookins
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Lost and Found: KB Brookins on Masculinity, Gender and Trauma

"I was a girl in the imagination of others and nowhere else."
May 29, 2024  By KB Brookins
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