Come join us for the latest installment in the Cherry Reading Series featuring KB Brookins! The first 50 guests receive a free copy of the writer's work.
KB is a Black, queer, and trans writer, educator, and cultural worker from Texas. KB’s 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 debut collection Freedom House won the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best First Book of Poetry. KB’s memoir Pretty (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024) won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and the Dorothy Allison/Felice Picano Emerging Writer Award.
We hope to see you there!
Thursday, November 6, 2025
5:30 p.m. CT
Rice University
Sewall Hall 301
Free
Register here--seating is limited