LUCIE BROOKS is a poet and professor. She is a board member of Sarabande Books, an award-winning, independent literary publishing house founded in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the 2022 Kentucky Poetry Society Chaffin/Kash poetry prize winner and a 2024 Grand Prix poetry prize finalist. Her work can be found in print and online, including in Swing, Salvation South, and LEON Review.
“How to Survive the End of the World” (Salvation South, forthcoming)
“On the Fourth of July” (Salvation South, 2025)
“At Age 16, I Become a Bird” (Swing, Vol. 1 Issue 2, 2024)
“The Globe Collection Speaks” (Leon Literary Review, 2024)
“My Brother, the Kinglet” (Leon Literary Review, 2024)
“Inheritance” (Pegasus, 2022)
Poetry
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)
Opinion
“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."
- Frank X. Walker, 2022 Chaffin/Kash Judge
“Kentucky poet Lucie Brooks, winner of the Chaffin/Kash Prize, weighs fireworks against fear in a searing new poem about raising Black sons below the Mason-Dixon. Each line snaps like a match struck in the dark, demanding we witness the country’s unfinished work.”
- Salvation South, 2025
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