About

Robin Reid Drake (she/they) is a Chicago based writer, filmmaker and educator originally from Greensboro, North Carolina. Drake writes about whiteness, trans embodiment, horror, ecology and control.

photo by Diana Solís, 2022

Artist Statement

I am committed to writing as a lifelong practice of collective accumulation & repair.

My interdisciplinary practice stems from a foundation in poetry.

I am interested in the world exactly as it is and ask the pen to be a listening organ. 

Residencies & Recognitions

Sundress Academy for the Arts; Knoxville, TN
Resident; 2023

Southern Constellations Fellowship, Elsewhere Living Art Museum; Greensboro, NC
Fellow; 2022

ArtWorks Fund & Changing World’s Teaching Artists Survive & Thrive Grant; Chicago, IL
Recipient; 2021

Ragdale Foundation; Lake Forest, IL
Writer in Residence; 2019

Windy City Times’ 30 Under 30; Chicago, IL
Awardee; 2019

Lacawac Sanctuary LGBTQ+ Artists Residency; Lake Ariel, PA
Writer in Residence; 2018

New Artists Society Scholarship, SAIC; Chicago, IL
Recipient; 2016

Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize, UNC Asheville; Asheville, NC
Awardee; 2014

Comfort Scholarship for Excellence in Writing, UNC Asheville; Asheville, NC
Recipient; 2013

Work

Robin Reid Drake currently works in schools & community settings as a Teaching Artist with Young Chicago Authors & 826CHI.

CV

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