KB Brookins [pronouns: they/them] is a Black queer nonbinary poet, organizer, and postsecondary ed professional currently based in Austin, TX. They’ve received fellowship invitations from the Vermont Studio Center, Lambda Literary, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, The Watering Hole, Winter Tangerine, and UTSA’s African American Literatures and Cultures Institute. Their poetry appears in The Cincinnati Review, The Matador Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Shade Journal, Sappho’s Torque, and other pretty places. When they’re not on the stage or in the page, they serve as Program Coordinator for the Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin and Founder/Co-Organizer of Interfaces.
Faylita Hicks [pronouns: she/her/they] is a queer writer, mobile photographer, and performance artist. The author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), their poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Slate, Huffington Post, POETRY magazine, Color Bloq, Adroit, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, and others. Winner of the 2019 Best of Net Award, they have received a Pushcart Prize nomination from Tahoma Literary Review. They are the Editor-in-Chief of the Austin-based literary journal Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. They work to educate the public on issues and policies related to pretrial incarceration and cash bail, as an organizer with social justice nonprofit Mano Amiga.
The 2009 Grand Slam Champion of the Austin Poetry Slam, she was a member of the 2008 Neo Soul Poetry Slam Team and won several individual regional competitions. Her visual art has been exhibited in the Texas State University Gallery of the Common Experience, Insomnia Gallery in Houston, Dahlia’s Gallery in San Marcos, Patio Dolcetto in San Marcos, and featured in Five:2:One print magazine. The Founder/Creative Director of Arrondi Creative Productions, Hicks is an artist on the roster for hip-hop collective Grid Squid Entertainment.
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