![]() ![]() The result of her efforts was an early version of The Last True Poets of the Sea (Disney-Hyperion), a loose retelling of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which follows 16-year-old Violet, who is sent to the fictional town of Lyric, Maine, after her brother’s suicide attempt. Those two things pushed me back toward young adult.” Drake credits Jim Shepherd, one of her professors, with mentoring and encouraging her to stick with it. ![]() ![]() “I really believe in accessibility in art and that most people read for pleasure. “I was reacting negatively toward some of the writing I was doing and the writing I was seeing celebrated in graduate school: things that were impenetrable for the sake of being impenetrable, difficult, and, in a way, elitist,” she says. It wasn’t until she was working on her MFA in creative writing at Columbia University that Drake began seriously considering publishing a novel. ![]()
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