Bio

Cori Bratby-Rudd (she, her) is a queer LA-based writer and co-founder of Influx Collectiv(e)’s Queer Poetry Reading Series. She is the author of the chapbook Cage of Eden (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Cori graduated Cum Laude from UCLA’s Gender Studies department and received her MFA in Creative Writing from California Institute of the Arts.

Cori was nominated as one of Lambda Literary’s 2018 Emerging Writers, and in 2023, she was nominated for Best of the Net for her poem: A Breakdown of (Dis/ownment) or an Autobiography of Semantics. Her first manuscript Dis/owned was a semi-finalist for YesYes Book’s 2019 Pamet River Prize, was longlisted for PANK Magazine’s 2019 Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection World Works Prize in 2021. Her work can be found in numerous journals and magazines online, including Jet Fuel Review, Naugatuck River Review, PANK Magazine, Entropy Magazine, MS Magazine, among others.

Cori is a co-founder and Director of Programs at Dissonance Press. She edited their debut anthology titled Under The Belly of the Beast. Her work has also been anthologized in Sundress Publications, A Body You Talk To: An Anthology of Contemporary Disability edited by Tennison S. Black.