Selected Reviews
Pretty
Kirkus Reviews: Pretty Review
BookPage: Pretty Review
GLAAD: KB Brookins’ ‘Pretty: A Memoir’ and Manifesto for the Transformative Power of Black, Queer, and Trans Stories
Star Tribune: 5 books to read in celebration of Twin Cities Pride
Texas Book Festival: Recommended Reads from Texas-Owned Bookstores
Freedom House
Vogue: The Best New Poetry Collections to Read (or Preorder) Now
Honey Literary: KB Brookins’s FREEDOM HOUSE as Manifesto
Autostraddle: 65 of the Best Queer Books of 2023
BookRiot: Recent Poetry Releases To Add To Your Collections In Anticipation Of The Sealey Challenge
Texas Oberserver: 2023 Must-Read Lone Star Books
How To Identify Yourself With a Wound
Sundress Publications: “Sundress Reads: Review of How to Identify Yourself with a Wound”
The Poetry Question: “Review: How To Identify Yourself With a Wound”
Infrarrealista Review: “How To Identify Yourself With a Wound By KB is An Echo From Beginning To End/Future”
Chicago Review of Books: 44 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-conforming Authors
Selected Interviews
Vogue: In Their New Memoir Pretty, KB Brookins Blends Poetry and Prose to Paint a Vivid Portrait of Black Southern Transmasculinity
ACLU of Texas: Poetry, Visual Art, and Storytelling Against Cash Bail: A Q&A with Artist-in-Residence KB Brookins
Offing Magazine: Q&A with KB Brookins, author of Pretty
Dear Schuyler Podcast: How can we liberate ourselves from gender hazing? with KB Brookins
Barnes & Noble Poured Over Podcast: KB Brookins on Pretty
Liberation is Lit Podcast: The Vessel of Me (with KB Brookins)
PEN South Africa: KB Brookins & Maneo Mohale: Dreaming of Freedom & Centring Trans Joy
Cosmopolitan: This Is Your Gender-Affirming Care Counterprogramming
Poetry Magazine Podcast: KB Brookins and Holly Amos on Systemic Freedom, the Power of Insistence, and What People Don’t Understand about Texas.
Electric Lit: The Fight for Freedom Starts With How We Treat Ourselves and Others
Good Folk: KB Brookins Interview (Audio Transcript)
Bad Queers Podcast: Old Gay Era (w/KB Brookins)
KUT 90.5: 'This 'yes' feels so good': KB Brookins on their new book and becoming an NEA fellow
Austin Chronicle: Taking a Tour of Freedom House
Selected Other Press
Autostraddle / Bookshop / For Them: 75 Queer Books to Read for Pride 2024
Oxford American: Freedom House: A Sonic Bibliography
Academy of American Poets: A Reading List for National Poetry Month 2023
Lambda Literary: April Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Books
Reckon Media: Making history with their words: 17 trailblazing queer and trans poets of our generation.
Ms. Magazine: Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of the Last Year
Shade Literary Arts: 2023 Forthcoming Poetry Books by Queer People of Color
Into Magazine: Get To Know 2023’s Queer NEA Grant Recipients in Creative Writing
Trans Tales: Adult books by trans, nonbinary and gender non-conforming authors coming out in 2023
Ariana Brown: Holiday Gift Guide for Poetry Lovers
Chronicle of Higher Education: What’s In a Name?
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