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[1] and the author of three books: How To Identify Yourself with a Wound,[2] Freedom House,[3] and Pretty: A Memoir[4][5].

[9] Brookins received the 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Prize from the Academy of American Poets for their poem "Good Grief".

[14] 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.

[27] 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.