Taylor Drake
Taylor Drake got her first name from the Cabbage Patch doll her mother had as a kid and her last from a duck.Since then, her work has appeared in Outrageous Fortune, The Onyx Review, LURe, The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, Persephone’s Daughters, EX/POST Magazine, Stone of Madness Press, Wrongdoing Magazine, OFIC Magazine, and Storm Cellar Quarterly, where she won second place in the 2020 Force Majeure Flash Contest. She has also won the 2021 SAMLA Undergraduate Student Essay Award and been nominated for a 2022 Best of the Net Award.When not writing, you'll catch her reading folktales and spending too much time online cataloging human curiosities (“without realizing,” as a professor once said, “that she herself is one as well”).
Creative Writing
Scholarship
Awards and other info
Creative writing
"The Glass Whale." OFIC Magazine, Issue 8 (Winter 2024): 91-111"up in our bedroom after the war."the winnow, Popular Culture Issue 1, Vol. 2: Sailor Moon, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and Stardew Valley(2022): 20"What J Left." Stillpoint Literary Magazine, Volume 53: 83-84"the sea monster stays in bed all day listening to long division.*" OFIC Magazine, Issue I (Spring 2022): 66-67"From Monica, With Love." Wrongdoing Magazine, Issue II (Fall 2021): 55-58"screwdrivers." EX/POST Magazine. Issue III (May 2021).“Rumination.” Storm Cellar Quarterly. Volume 9.1 (Winter 2021): 4-6. You can buy the issue here. 2nd Winner in the 2020 Force Majeure Flash Contest."the fantastic form of a relation between things." The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, Volume 96 (Winter 2021): 95-101"Wondertales.” Persephone’s Daughters. Issue 7 (Winter 2020). Nominated for a 2022 Best of the Net Award.“Carlos.” Outrageous Fortune. Issue 11.1 (Winter 2019). This story was written as a thematic response to "I Go Back To Berryman's" and published with the author's permission. You can check out the author's other work here.
Scholarship
Published Research"Culture as Violence in Carmen Maria Machado's 'Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order: SVU.'" SAMLA News, Volume 42: 9-15. Winner of the 2021 Undergraduate Student Essay Award.“The Cannibal Mother: Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass and the Sexual Anxieties of Bluebeard Folktales.” The Onyx Review: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal. Vol. 3, no. 1 (Fall 2017): 9-20. Winner of the Louise McKinney Literary Award.Public ScholarshipComics go Underground: The Origins of Wimmen's ComixYou Need To Have a 4th Wall to Break It: Hypermediacy in Wimmen’s ComixDear Sisters: The Feminist Performances of Wimmen’s Comix
Awards and Other Info
AWARDS• Louise McKinney Literary Award, Agnes Scott College, 2017 - received $500 cash award for best literary analysis essay submitted that term.• 2nd Prize in the 2020 Force Majeure Flash Contest, Storm Cellar Quarterly, 2020 - received $200 cash award and publication for second best flash fiction submitted.• Sara Wilson Glendinning Journalism Award, Agnes Scott College, 2020 - received $1750 cash award for outstanding junior or senior planning to pursue a career in writing, communications, or journalism.• Undergraduate Student Essay Award, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2021 - received $125 cash award for most outstanding undergraduate student presentation given at the previous year's conference.• Best of the Net (Nomination), Persephone's Daughters, 2021 - Nominated for the Best of the Net creative nonfiction awards for my essay, "Wondertales," from issue seven of Persephone's Daughters.ORGANIZATIONS• South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2020• Sigma Tau Delta, International Honor Society for English Studies, Invited Junior Year at Agnes Scott College, 2019• Theta Alpha Kappa, National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology, Invited Senior Year at Agnes Scott College, 2020CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS“Culture as Violence in Carmen Maria Machado's ‘Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order: SVU.’” 92nd South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Virtual, November 14, 2020.“Call Me Isabel: The Problem of Prince Edward.” Sigma Tau Delta 2020 International Convention. Las Vegas, Nevada, March 28, 2020. (Event cancelled due to COVID-19.)“'For my dear wife had no hands': Sexuality and Objectification in a Modern Maiden Without Hands.” 27th Annual Institute for Women’s Studies Student Research Symposium. Athens, Georgia, February 28, 2020.