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).  With Julie E. Bloemeke, Dustin is an editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville, 2023).  His poetry has been featured on NPR and other radio stations, in Georgia Poetry in the Parks, and earned him Pushcart and Best of the Net Nominations.  Dustin has been anthologized in The Queer South: LGBTQ Writes on the American South (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014) and Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on their Muses (Lethe Press, 2012). He is also the curator of the Wild & Precious Life Series, a Zoom based poetry reading series.