Dustin Brookshire

Dustin Brookshire is the author of the chapbooks Never Picked First For Playtime (Harbor Editions, 2023),  Love Most Of You Too (Harbor Editions, 2021) and To The One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012).   Love Most Of You Too and Never Picked First For Playtime were finalists in the Poetry Chapbook category of the American Book Fest’s Best Book Awards in 2022 and 2023, respectively.

Along with poet Julie E. Bloemeke, Dustin is the co-editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2023), which was named to the 2024 “Books All Georgians Should Read” list by the Georgia Center for the Book. In 2023, Let Me Say This was a finalist in the Poetry Anthologies category of the American Book Fest’s Best Book Awards.

Dustin is recipient of the 2024 Jon Tribble Editors Fellowship at Poetry by the Sea. In 2021, he was a finalist for the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Award. Dustin has been nominated for the Best of the Net and  twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and his work has earned him residencies through The Betsy Hotel’s Writer’s Room and South Porch Artists Residency.

Dustin has been anthologized in Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on their Muses (Lethe Press, 2012), The Queer South: LGBTQ Writes on the American South (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), and the forthcoming Braving the Body (2024).

Dustin’s poetry has been published in or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Honey Literature, Jet Fuel Review, TAB, Assaracus, Gargoyle, Whiskey Island, South Florida Poetry Journal, South 85, Elm Leaves Journal, Olney Magazine, Mollyhouse, The Rise Up Review, The West Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, Harbor Review, The City Salt, and other publications.

He has led generative poetry workshops for O,Miami, OutWrite DC Literary Festival, and the Hudson Valley Writers Center, and he’s been a guest speaker in creative writing classes at Georgia State University.

Dustin’s literary citizenship includes founding and editing Limp Wrist, founding and curating the Zoom-based Wild & Precious Life Series, curating Why I Write, serving a Director of Virtual Programs for Punch Bucket Lit, serving as Sr Editor for Harbor Anthologies, serving as Program Director for Reading Queer (2021-2023), being a founding member of FLAWN (2022-2023), establishing the Limp Wrist LGBTQIA+ Scholarship at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, establishing the Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize through South Florida Poetry Journal & Limp Wrist, and founding the South Florida Poets (now operating as the LGBTQIA+ & Friends).