![]() ![]() For two years, KB was the Program Coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Center at UT Austin, where they founded the Black Queer & Trans Collective and co-led the President’s LGBTQIA+ Committee. In a span of five years, they founded and led two nonprofits with friends and community members to advance LGBTQIA+ justice and nurture/amplify marginalized artists in Central Texas. KB’s background in nonprofit management, student affairs, and K-12 teaching informs their cultural work. KB’s poem “ Good Grief” won the Academy of American Poets 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize. They have earned fellowships from PEN America, Lambda Literary, Tin House, The Anderson Center, and The Watering Hole among others. Magazine, and others.Ĭurrently, KB is a National Endowment of the Arts fellow MFA candidate at The University of Texas at Austin Poet-in-Residence at Civil Rights Corps and at work on their debut art installation Freedom House: An Exhibition. KB’s debut full-length poetry collection Freedom House (Deep Vellum, 2023) has been recommended by Vogue, Autostraddle, Ms. KB’s chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the Saguaro Poetry Prize and was named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in Literature. Their writing is featured in, HuffPost, Poetry Magazine, Teen Vogue, Poetry Society of America, Oxford American, American Poetry Review, Electric Literature, Okayplayer, and elsewhere. Together that makes Deep Vellum.KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. We’re located in the Dallas historical district Deep Ellum, adjacent to downtown, and vellum is a thick parchment used to print high-quality books. Looking for Deep Vellum Bookstore? Our sister storefront sells a variety of books, including ours. We are dedicated to publishing socially engaged literature that fosters cross-cultural dialogue, breaks down barriers between communities, and promotes empathy. Instead of selecting a book for publication exclusively because of its sales potential, our nonprofit status allows us to choose books for their artistic and social value. Why Nonprofit?ĭeep Vellum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. ![]() Check out our “ Virtual Event Archive” to view past events. Plus, we’re hosting more events than ever before, and we’re working to reach more readers, both locally and nationally, to connect literary communities and book lovers from all backgrounds. Curious to learn about Dallas past, present, and future? We’ve got you covered. ![]() As of 2020, approximately half of our published books are international works and half are English-original material. You can now find fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography, and our signature translated literature among our books. Fast Forward to Todayĭeep Vellum has expanded its operations to encompass 5 distinct publishing imprints and to publish English-original books with a special focus on Dallas writers. In our first 5 years, Deep Vellum published 90 works in translation by international writers and hosted dozens of literary events for Dallas residents. In 2013, Will opened Deep Vellum, a nonprofit organization with the goal to bring books, writers, and translators to Dallas by publishing the world’s best and most diverse literature from around the world and to create a community space for all things literary. After talking with every arts leader he could in those early months, he cooked up a Texas-sized vision: he wanted to found a nonprofit independent publishing house and literary arts center in the center of Dallas. When book lover Will Evans first moved to Dallas, he realized that Dallas literary fans and readers had few places they could go to engage in conversation about books and global literary happenings. ![]()
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