Julia Drake

Julia Drake’s (she/her) debut novel The Last True Poets of the Sea was published in 2019 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and received the 2020 New England Book Award, six starred reviews, and was named a 2019 Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist, among other publications. Her short fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Esopus, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and her second young adult novel is forthcoming from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 2025. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, and occasionally moonlights as a professor of creative and academic writing. She lives and works in Philadelphia with her partner, their rescue rabbit Ned, and their rescue puppy Sal.

https://www.juliadrakewriter.com/