about
Corey Ruzicano (she/her/hers)
Corey Ruzicano (she/her/hers) is a writer and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first feature length collection, still, was published in 2021 by Finishing Line Press. She has worked as a creative producer with P Carl and David Dower at Arts Emerson, Jeanine Tesori at New York City Center and Siena Music, Diana Oh, Victor Cervantes Jr. and Lloyd Suh at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and The Lark. As a writer her poetry and arts journalism can be found on HowlRound, Stage & Candor where she was Editor in Chief and in countless poetry journals. As an educator she has run programs that use arts to teach leadership and emotional intelligence for 826NYC, A BroaderWay, Subway Moon, Second Stage, The National High School Institute, Everytown for Gun Safety, Words on White, and her collective, Where’s The Human?, where she builds programs for non-profits, corporations, schools, and community centers that make spaces for difficult conversations. She assists Claudia Rankine, poet, playwright and Yale University professor and founder of the Racial Imaginary. With all her work, she believes expression belongs to all of us and is necessary to evolution.