Dustin Brookshire is the author of the chapbooks Repeat As Needed (Harbor Editions, May 2025), 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.
He is the editor of the forthcoming anthology chapbook When I Was Straight: A Tribute To Maureen Seaton (Harbor Anthologies, December 2024).
Along with poet Julie E. Bloemeke, Dustin is the co-editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2023). In 2024, Let Me Say was awarded a Nautilus silver medal and named to the “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. The Slowdown, episodes 1109 and 1139, featured Let Me Say This poems.
Dustin is recipient of the 2024 Jon Tribble Editors Fellowship at Poetry by the Sea, and a runner up for the 2024 Desert Rat Residency Poetry Prize. In 2023, his work was featured in Georgia Poetry in the Parks, and he was a finalist for the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Award in 2021. Dustin has been nominated twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and three times for the Best of the Net. 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 Writers on the American South (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), Braving the Body (Harbor Anthologies, 2024), and Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift (Ballantine Books, 2024).
tive writing classes at Georgia State University and the University of North Carolina Asheville.
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 as Director of Virtual Programs for Punch Bucket Lit, 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).
