Press/Publications

News articles about/featuring Cori Bratby-Rudd:

Santa Cruz Sentinel: UCLA-bound Santa Cruzan earns $10,000 scholarship; foundation honors Bratby-Rudd

Rise Above All Odds: Sh*t People Have Actually Said to People With LQBTQ+ Parent(s)

Poets and Writer’s: Directory of Poets

Voyage LA: Meet Cori Bratby-Rudd of Influx Collectiv’s Queer Poetry Reading Series in East LA

Alhambra Source: Through the Looking Glass: A Night of Queer Poetry at the Rabbit Hole Bar in Alhambra

The Occidental: Local bookstore Book Show forced to relocate, depriving Highland Park of a queer-focused space

University of Arizona Poetry Center: An Interview with Cori Bratby-Rudd and Ryka Aoki

The Colored Pages Book Club Podcast: Cori Bratby-Rudd’s Under The Belly of the Beast

Uncensored Visionary (Podcast): Cori Bratby-Rudd- Influx Collectiv

Publication History:

Books

• Under The Belly of the Beast: Anthology (Dissonance Press)
• Cage of Eden (Finishing Line Press)
• Dis/owned (pending publisher)

Poetry Publications 

• The Nothing Known as a Stranger on a Plane. Re-published in the 2023 A Body You Talk To: An Anthology of Contemporary Disability edited by Tennison S. Black.
• My boss is trying to kill me in Naugatuck River Review 2023.
• A Breakdown (of Dis/ownment) or an Autobiography of Semantics in After Happy Hour Review Issue 17 — Nominated for Best of the Net 2023
• The nothing known as a stranger on a plane, FAQ: What’s it like to have lesbian moms (for those of you who don’t) in Jet Fuel Review
• Cage of Eden in PANK Magazine (upcoming)
• 3 poems in GoodBaad Journal
• Body Collect in EMERGE 2019 anthology
• 3 Poems in Entropy Magazine
• Inheritance in Impossible Archetypes
• To Be Wrong or To Be Whole in Glassworks Magazine
• Because a Man-Boy in Blacklist Journal
• After Charles L. Worley in Blacklist Journal
• Dreamland Grandma Patch Notes Updates V 1.1 in Heavy Feather Review
• Note to Self: At Least I Know I Couldn’t Have Been An Accident in Rising Phoenix Press
• She Told Me To Write Her A Love Letter in Califragile
• Successfully Hiding It in Angel City Review
• My Dog Keeps Getting These Damn Foxtails Stuck in Her Paws in The Gordian Review (Texas Review Press)
• The Dreams of Goat Children in The Gordian Review (Texas Review Press)
• Tapping in The Rush Literary Magazine

• Back of my Hand as a Fish out of Water in Enclave (Partnered with Entropy Magazine)

• So You Want To See L.A. in Drylandlit Press

• If You Call Me A Sin, I Will Be It. Westwind Journal of the Arts

Creative Non-Fiction

• puppyelectric in Nailed Magazine
• The Love That Could Have Been in The Rainbow Letters

• My Name is Cori. Here is my Story: in Personal Stories Project

Journalism/Academic Pieces 

• Notes to Self: The Psychosexual Films of Nazli Dinçel in Cinemotion
• Straight Queers: Seduced By Normal in Audeamus Academic Journal

• Don’t Normalize Trump in The New York Minute

Book Reviews

• [REVIEW] Joy Of Missing Out by Ana Božičević in Entropy Magazine
• [REVIEW] Tiana Clark’s I Can’t Talk About The Trees Without The Blood in PANK Magazine
• [REVIEW] Emily Skaja’s Brute in Crab Fat Magazine
• [REVIEW] New Poets of Native Nations in Ms. Magazine

Ms. Magazine — 2018 (Selected publications)

• We Heart: Hannah Gadsby’s Revolutionary Rewrite of the Stand-up Special
• More Voters Support Abortion Rights Under Roe v. Wade Than Ever
• Head Counts and Calls to Action: Major Takeaways from the Domestic Violence Census
• The High Cost of Education Inequality Worldwide
• The Fight Against Upskirting in the UK isn’t Over
• We Heart: Michelle Wolf’s Salute to Abortions
• Akila Radhakrishnan is Now at the Helm of the Global Justice Center’s Powerful Work for International Human Rights
• Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Amanda Nguyen Wants A Survivors’ Bill of Rights in Every State
• Pro-Bono Immigration Lawyers Raised $19 Million to Reunite Families Separated Along the Border
• Intersectional Feminism in Prime Time

Honors/Awards

• Longlist for PANK Magazine’s Book Contest 2019
• Selected Participant in 2019 Season 11 Writer to Writer Mentorship
• Semifinalist for YesYes Books 2019 Pamet River Prize
• 2019 Finalist for Juniper Fellowship
• 2019 Q Story Stream Fellow
• 2019 Eastside Queer Stories Fellowship from the Queer Youth Foundation.
• 2018-19 Fellowship with Arts in a Changing America (ArtChangeUS)
• 2018 Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles for “exemplary efforts and devotion […] in the fight to end domestic and sexual violence.”
• 2018 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Retreat Fellow.
• 2018 Los Angeles LA LGBT Center Lifework’s Scholar
• 2017 Editorial choice award in Audeamus’ Academic Journal for the best research piece
• 2017-2019 California Institute of the Arts, Lilian Disney Scholarship
• 2016 Graduated Cum Laude from UCLA’s Department of Gender Studies
• 2015 UCLA FEM Newsmagazine’s MVP in Writing
• 2015 UCLA FEM Newsmagazine’s Most Inspirational Staff Member
• 2013 UCLA May Ballard Scholar
• 2012-2014 Little Rock Nine Foundation Scholar
• 2012 Ronald McDonald House Charities Scholar
• 2012-2014 Santa Cruz Omega Nu Scholar
• 2012 Santa Cruz Rotary Scholar
• 2012 Community Foundation of Santa Cruz Scholar
• 2012 Scotts Valley Rotary Scholar
• 2012 Monterrey Bay Insurance Scholar

Fellowship/Workshop Invitations:

• Lambda Literary
• Home School
• Winter Tangerine
• Colgate Writer’s Conference
• Q Story Stream
• Eastside Queer Stories
• Arts in a Changing America

Events and Speaking Engagements:

• All events with Influx Collectiv have been hosted/organized by Cori
• LGBTQ+ Literary Space Makers in Quarantine Roundtable Panelist – January 10, 2021
• Pantoum’d Book Release and Reading: Featured Performer – August 23, 2019
• Homocentric: Life’s a …: Featured Performer — July 30th 2019
• Q Story Stream Live Storytelling Event: Featured Performer — June 20th, 2019
• Before We’re Thrown to the Wolves: Featured Performer — April 20th 2019
• Lambda Literary X Poetry @ AWP– March 26th, 2019
• Drunken Masters Love & Liberation: Featured Performer– January 24th 2019

Wikipedia

Cori Bratby-Rudd is also an avid Wikipedia editor and has created pages for the following 60 individuals:

1. Alexia Arthurs
2. Kat Cunning
3. Jean Guerrero
4. Britteney Black Rose Kapri
5. Vanessa Siddle Walker
6. Tressie McMillian Cottom
7. Mariame Kaba
8. Melissa Lozada-Oliva
9. Ama Codjoe
10. Ebony Flowers
11. Abby Norman
12. Sarai Walker
13. Hallie Lieberman
14. Desmond Napoles
15. Lacy J. Davis
16. Katharina Paulus
17. Edna Murphey
18. Elise Sørensen
19. Christel Kammerer
20. Reyhaneh Sariri
21. Hanne Nielsen
22. Catherine Hettinger
23. Monia Ben Jemia
24. Mary Kees
25. Rachel Anderson (football agent)
26. Juanita Tomayo Lott
27. Crystelle-Ida Ngnipoho-Pokam
28. Lacy M. Johnson
29. Meredith Perry (inventor)
30. Jill Brown-Hiltz
31. Black Female Photographers
32. Stacy Rukeyser
33. Catherine Virginia Baxley
34. Edith Ainge
35. Tiana Clark
36. Michaela Ivri Mendelsohn
37. Fiona Dawson
38. Rebecca Nagle
39. Akila Radhakrishnan
40. Sasha Garden
41. Indya Moore
42. Ryan Jamaal Swain
43. Hailie Sahar
44. Murder of Nia Wilson
45. Amanda Daflos
46. Carolyn Baxter
47. Lillian Ascough
48. Amina al-Tuhaif
49. Margaret Werner Tobien
50. Alamance 12
51. Katharine A. Morey
52. Connie Mofokeng‎
53. Precious Bedell
54. Margarita Alcantara
55. Josephine Amelia Perkins
56. Patricia McConnel‎
57. Pat North Ommert
58. Jane Riga
59. Suzanne Asbury-Oliver
60. Allie Rowbottom
61. Amy Roloff

Bio:

Cori Bratby-Rudd is a queer LA-based writer and co-founder of Influx Collectiv(e)’s Queer Poetry Reading Series. She graduated Cum Laude from UCLA’s Gender Studies department, and is a current MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at California Institute of the Arts. She has been published in Ms. Magazine, The Gordian Review, Califragile, PANK Magazine, Entropy, Crab Fat Magazine, among others. She recently won the Editorial Choice Award for her research paper in Audeamus Academic Journal and was nominated as one of Lambda Literary’s 2018 Emerging Writers. You can find her at coribratbyrudd.com.

Recordings of Readings:

https://vimeo.com/288602295