KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans poet, essayist, and cultural worker from Fort Worth, Texas. Their writing is published in Academy of American Poets, Huffington Post, American Poetry Review, Teen Vogue, Electric Literature, Okayplayer, Oxford American, and elsewhere. KB is the author of How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022), a chapbook selected by ire’ne laura silva as winner of the Saguaro Poetry Prize, and Freedom House (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023), their debut full-length poetry book. They have earned fellowships from PEN America, Lambda Literary, and The Watering Hole among others. Their poem, “Good Grief”, won the Academy of American Poets 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize. Their memoir, Pretty, will be published with Alfred A. Knopf in 2024. They are the 2022-23 poet-in-residence at Civil Rights Corps. Follow them online at @earthtokb.