Bri Stokes

Bri Stokes is a writer, editor, curator, cultural worker, producer and poet born, raised and living in Los Angeles, on unceded Tongva land. Her writing has appeared in BuzzFeed, 45th Parallel, Epiphany, the Northridge Review, and elsewhere. Bri is a former poetry editor at the now-disbanded Hecate Magazine, and served as the Managing Editor of Issue 04 of SKEW Magazine. Her debut chapbook, “A Throat Full of Forest-Dirt,” was published in late-2023 by Bottlecap Press. Earlier in 2023, she was longlisted for Thin Air Magazine’s “The Bird In Your Hands” prize for poetry. In 2018, she was awarded "Best Short Story" by the El Camino College Myriad for her speculative fiction piece, "Pr(e)y." Bri is a 2024 Voodoonauts Fellow and an editorial assistant at HINCHAS Press.