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KB Brookins

1995–

United States

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KB Brookins (born August 28, 1995) is a Black American writer and poet. Brookins was awarded a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and is the author of the poetry collections How to Identify Yourself with a Wound and Freedom House and the memoir Pretty: A Memoir, which won the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction.

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