Lucie Brooks is a writer and educator. She grew up bouncing between rural Kentucky and Louisville, Kentucky, where she resides today. Her nonfiction work examines family, place, the natural world, whiteness, and the opioid epidemic. You can read her in Taunt, Catapult, Manifest Station, and Pegasus. She is the 2022 winner of the Chaffin/Kash poetry prize.
Essays
The Ever Expanding Story (Manifest Station, 2022)
What I Said at My Brother’s Funeral/ What I Left Out (Taunt, 2021)
Why I Cannot Write About My Father (Catapult, 2017)
Poetry
“At Age 16, I Become a Bird” (Forthcoming, 2024)
“The Globe Collection Speaks” (Forthcoming, 2024)
“My Brother, the Kinglet” (Forthcoming, 2024)
“Inheritance” (Pegasus, 2022)
Frank X. Walker, 2022 Chaffin/Kash Judge
“Inheritance,” struck me immediately for its daring, intelligence, poignancy, and the skillful way it incrementally unveils the emotional and historical truths via the speaker all the way to its very last words. It is a dark and painful, but important poem that deserves a wide audience."
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