Lucie Brooks is a writer and educator. She grew up bouncing between rural Kentucky and Louisville, Kentucky, where she resides today. Her writing preoccupations are family, place, the natural world, whiteness, and the opioid epidemic. You can read her in Taunt, Catapult, Swing, Manifest Station, and Pegasus. She is the 2022 Kentucky Poetry Society Chaffin/Kash poetry prize winner and a 2024 Grand Prix poetry prize finalist.
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” (Swing, Vol. 1 Issue 2, 2024)
“The Globe Collection Speaks” (Leon Literary Review, September 2024)
“My Brother, the Kinglet” (Leon Literary Review, September 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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