KB Brookins explained

KB Brookins
Birth Date:1995 8, mf=yes
Birth Place:Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Occupation:Writer
Education:Texas Christian University (BA)
University of Texas at Austin (MFA - in progress)
Genres:Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
Notable Works:Pretty: A Memoir (2024), Freedom House (2023), How To Identify Yourself With a Wound (2022)
Awards:National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, Stonewall Book Awards Barbara Gittings Literature Award

KB Brookins (born August 28, 1995) is a Black American author, poet, creative nonfiction writer, and visual artist. 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,[1] Freedom House, and Pretty: A Memoir[2] [3] .

Early life and education

Brookins was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas.[4] They first became interested in poetry in 7th grade after a teacher introduced them to the genre.[5] They started writing their own poetry in high school.[6]

Brookins attended Texas Christian University and graduated in 2017.[7]

Career

Brookins received the 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Prize from the Academy of American Poets for their poem "Good Grief".[8] Their poetry chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound won the Saguaro Poetry Prize and a Writer's League of Texas Discovery Prize.[9] [10] It was also selected as a 2023 Stonewall Honor Book Award through the American Library Association. [11]

Freedom House explores themes of race, transgender identity, and gentrification among others.[12] 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."[13] Karla J. Strand of Ms. included it in "the best poetry of the last year".[14] Freedom House won the 2024 Stonewall Book Award Barbara Gittings Literature Award and an award with the Texas Institute of Letters.[15] Freedom House was named a best book of 2023 by Autostraddle, Texas Observer, and Chicago Review of Books.[16] [17] [18] [19]

Pretty has gotten favorable reviews in Kirkus among other venues.[20] Brookins worked as a Program Coordinator at The University of Texas at Austin’s Gender and Sexuality Center.[21] [22] Brookins founded two nonprofit organizations in Austin, Texas: Interfaces [23] [24] and Embrace Austin.[25] Brookins stated that Interfaces started "as a response to 'a serious problem with accessibility' of all kinds, including physical and financial, in the literary and arts events they attended in Austin."[26]

Brookins is the subject of a documentary that premieres at the 2024 .[27] Brookins turned their book Freedom House into an art exhibit, which premiered in Austin, Texas in April 2024.[28]

Works

Books

Poems

Essays

Zines

Art Exhibits

In Anthology

Edited

Awards and fellowships

Personal life

Brookins moved to Austin, TX in 2018. Brookins identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.[55] They currently are a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin.[56]

Notes and References

  1. St. Jude . Jenn . 2022 . Validated, Represented, and Connected to a Larger Narrative: An Interview with KB . Chicago Review of Books.
  2. Web site: Specter . Emma . 2024-05-23 . In Their New Memoir 'Pretty', KB Brookins Blends Poetry and Prose to Paint a Vivid Portrait of Black Southern Transmasculinity . 2024-05-28 . Vogue . en-US.
  3. Web site: ortiz . mónica teresa . 2024-05-28 . Book review of Pretty by KB Brookins . 2024-05-28 . BookPage Discover your next great book! . en-US.
  4. Web site: KB (Brookins) . 2023-07-20 . id.loc.gov . Library of Congress.
  5. KB Brookins and Holly Amos on Systemic Freedom, the Power of Insistence, and What People Don't Understand about Texas . The Poetry Magazine Podcast . Poetry Foundation . 2023-05-16 . en . 2023-05-17.
  6. Web site: 2023-05-03 . A Normal Interview with KB Brookins by James O'Bannon . 2023-05-16 . The Normal School . en-US.
  7. Web site: Wilson . Jeff . 2023-05-10 . KB Brookins: How It Started ... How It's Going . 2023-05-16 . TCU Magazine . en.
  8. Web site: The Academy of American Poets Announces 2022 Winners of the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize . 2023-05-17 . poets.org.
  9. Web site: Saguaro Poetry Prize Winner . 2023-05-17 . Kallisto Gaia Press . en-US.
  10. Web site: 2023-09-14 . 2022 Book Award Winners and Finalists . 2023-10-02 . Writers League of Texas . en-US.
  11. Web site: 2023 . Stonewall Book Awards List . 2023-06-25 . American Library Association . en-US.
  12. Web site: Freedom House . 2023-07-20 . Deep Vellum . en.
  13. Web site: 2023-04-04 . The Best New Poetry Collections to Read (or Preorder) Now . 2023-05-17 . Vogue . en-US.
  14. Web site: Strand . Karla J. . 2023-04-20 . Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of the Last Year . 2023-07-20 . Ms. Magazine . en-US.
  15. Web site: 2022-05-01 . Home . 2024-03-18 . texasinstituteofletters.org . en-US.
  16. Web site: RAGARCIA . 2024-02-05 . "Freedom House" wins 2024 Stonewall Barbara Gittings Literature Award . 2024-02-14 . News and Press Center . en.
  17. Web site: Casey . 2023-12-12 . 65 of the Best Queer Books of 2023 . 2024-02-14 . Autostraddle . en-US.
  18. Web site: 2023-12-22 . 61 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-conforming Authors . 2024-02-14 . Chicago Review of Books . en-US.
  19. Web site: Olsen . Lise . 2023-12-13 . The Texas Observer's 2023 Must-Read Lone Star Books . 2024-05-28 . The Texas Observer . en-US.
  20. Web site: Pretty by KB Brookins: 9780593537145 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books . 2024-05-28 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
  21. Web site: 2021 . Speakers discuss steps for change at UT during final day of State of Black UT . The Daily Texan.
  22. Web site: Field . Kelly . February 12, 2024 . What's In a Name? . The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  23. Web site: Weller . Dorothy Meiburg . July 30, 2021 . In Austin, indie creative writing communities thrive beyond the ivory tower . Sightlines.
  24. Web site: Neumann . Laiken . 2021 . "Very Queer and Very Hip-Hop": ATX Interfaces Cuts the Crap With Community-Based Art Programming . The Austin Chronicle.
  25. Web site: Sullivan . Beth . 2021 . Embrace Austin Seeks to Build Bridges Between Queer People and Queer Initiatives . The Austin Chronicle.
  26. Web site: Weller . Dorothy Meiburg . 2021-07-30 . In Austin, indie creative writing communities thrive beyond the ivory tower . 2023-05-17 . Sightlines . en-US.
  27. Web site: BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2024 . 2024-02-14 . BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2024 . en.
  28. Web site: Anderson . Carys . The Off Beat: KB Brookins' Poetry Book-Turned-Art Exhibit . 2024-04-14 . www.austinchronicle.com . en-US.
  29. Web site: Pretty by KB Brookins: 9780593537145 . 2024-04-11 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
  30. Web site: Freedom House . 2024-04-11 . Deep Vellum . en.
  31. Web site: How to Identify Yourself with a Wound . 2024-04-11 . Kallisto Gaia Press.
  32. Web site: March 2023 . March 2023 . . Poetry Foundation.
  33. Web site: KB Brookins Kenyon Review Author . 2023-10-02 . The Kenyon Review . en-US.
  34. Web site: 2023-05-03 . miCRo: "What's on your mind, KB?" by KB Brookins - The Cincinnati Review . 2023-07-20 . en-US.
  35. Web site: Love Machine Poetry Database Split This Rock . 2023-07-20 . www.splitthisrock.org . en.
  36. Web site: Poets . Academy of American . Good Grief by KB Brookins - Poems Academy of American Poets . 2023-07-20 . Poets.org . en.
  37. Web site: 2022-09-10 . We Are Not Untouchable . 2023-07-20 . en-US.
  38. Web site: Juarez . Alex . 2022-05-02 . My Gender Won't Fit in the Family Car . 2023-07-20 . Electric Literature . en-US.
  39. Web site: American Poetry Review - KB Brookins - "& Somehow, Men Are Nicer to Me Now" . 2023-07-20 . American Poetry Review . en.
  40. Web site: KB Brookins on "T Shot #4" . 2023-07-20 . Poetry Society of America . en.
  41. Web site: Freedom House: A Sonic Bibliography . 2023-07-20 . Oxford American . en.
  42. Web site: Brookins . K. B. . 2022-12-21 . Trans Texans Are Being Surveilled, This Is Everyone's Issue . 2023-07-20 . Autostraddle . en-US.
  43. Web site: How Kendrick Lamar Stumbles Toward Queer And Trans Allyship On "Auntie Diaries" - Okayplayer . 2023-07-20 . www.okayplayer.com . en.
  44. Web site: 2022-02-03 . This Is What It's Like Going To The Gynecologist When You're Black, Trans And In Texas . 2023-07-20 . HuffPost . en.
  45. Web site: 2021-12-07 . Why I Won't Be Coming Out to My Family During the Holidays . 2023-07-20 . Teen Vogue . en-US.
  46. Web site: A new relationship to pain : poems . 2023-07-27 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  47. Web site: zines . 2023-07-27 . KB Brookins . en-US.
  48. Web site: Nia KB . 2023-05-17 . Lambda Literary . en.
  49. Web site: 2021 Emerging Voices Fellows and Mentors . PEN America.
  50. Web site: 2022 . Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize | Academy of American Poets . Academy of American Poets.
  51. Web site: Poet KB to Serve as Fred Ewing Case and Lola Case Writer-in-Residence Sept. 15 - WIU News . 2023-05-17 . www.wiu.edu.
  52. Web site: Current Artist in Residence Archives . 2023-05-17 . Civil Rights Corps . en-US.
  53. Web site: Meet the Creative Writing Fellows: KB Brookins .
  54. Web site: admin . 2009-09-09 . Stonewall Book Awards List . 2023-07-20 . Round Tables . en.
  55. News: Rangel . Leslie . 2021 . Poet using spoken, written word to provide hope and understanding . 2021-06-11 . Fox 7.
  56. Web site: Profile for KB Brookins at UT Austin . 2023-05-17 . liberalarts.utexas.edu . en.

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