Robin Reid Drake is a Chicago based writer, artist and educator originally from Greensboro, North Carolina. Drake works as a teaching artist, engaging young people around subjects of intersectional histories, power and poetry. They are currently rough housing with a horror project, set in the Applalachian, Piedmont and Outer Banks ecologies that raised them.
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL
Master of Fine Arts in Writing; 2018
University of North Carolina at Asheville; Asheville, NC
Bachelors of Arts in Literature, Creative Writing & Africana Studies; 2014
Residencies & Recognitions
Ragdale Foundation; Lake Forest, IL
Writer in Residence; 2019
Windy City Times’ 30 Under 30; Chicago, IL
Awardee; 2019
Lacawac Sanctuary; Lake Ariel, PA
Writer in Residence, LGBTQ Artists Residency; 2018
New Artists Society Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL
Recipient; 2016
Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize, University of North Carolina at Asheville; Asheville, NC
Awardee; 2014
Comfort Scholarship for Excellence in Writing, UNC at Asheville; Asheville, NC
Recipient; 2013
John Carlton Myatt Writing Scholarship; Greensboro, NC
Recipient; 2010
