KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer, educator, and cultural worker from Texas. KB’s poetry chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound won the Saguaro Poetry Prize, a Writer’s League of Texas Discovery Prize, and a Stonewall Honor Book Award. Their poetry collection Freedom House, described as “urgent and timely” by Vogue, won the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best First Book of Poetry. KB adapted Freedom House into a solo art exhibit, displayed at multiple museums. Their debut memoir Pretty (Knopf, 2024) won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in Creative Nonfiction.