Courtney Kocak is a self-deprecating writer, podcaster, and comedian based in Los Angeles obsessed with weird history and societal taboos—it doesn’t matter if it’s porn, misogyny, abortion, or cannibalism, she’ll find a way to make it funny. She writes gritty dark comedies and dramedies with complicated women characters that explore the paradoxes of life with humor. 

Courtney originally hails from a rural farming community in Minnesota, home to more cows than people. She graduated from UCLA’s Professional Program in Screenwriting and wrote for Amazon’s Emmy-winning animated series Danger & Eggs, voiced by Aidy Bryant, and Netflix’s Know It All podcast. 

She’s produced a slew of highly-ranked podcasts—including The Bellas Podcast, which debuted at #1 on Apple Podcasts, PayPal’s Never Stand Still, and Girlboss Radio—and currently hosts two of her own: Private Parts Unknown, about love and sexuality around the world, which has over 1.5 million downloads to date, and The Bleeders, about book writing and publishing. As a writer, her bylines include The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan, BUST, Bustle, InsideHook, and more. 

 Courtney wrote a dark comedy pilot for a half-hour series entitled GIRL GONE WILD based on her experience selling t-shirts on the Girls Gone Wild tour, which recently won the Raindance Script Competition and was a finalist in the Diverse Voices competition.