Kinsale Drake

Kinsale Drake is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series for her debut poetry collection The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (University of Georgia Press, 2024), a Southwest Book of the Year and winner of the Reading the West Award for Poetry. A two-time winner of the Academy of American Poets University Prize, winner of the Joy Harjo Prize, and a former National Student Poet, her work has appeared in Poetry, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Time, and elsewhere. She earned her BAs from Yale University and directs programming for NDN Girls Book Club, which distributes free books to Indigenous youth and communities. She currently lives in Nashville, TN as a graduate teaching fellow at Vanderbilt University and serves as Editor-In-Chief of the Nashville Review.