Jessica Drake-Thomas

  • Graduate Student, English

Education

  • Master of Education, the University of Arizona, 2018
  • MFA, Emerson College, 2014
  • BA, Tulane University, 2011

Courses Taught

  • Composition and Rhetoric (Lonestar College Montgomery)
  • Advanced Placement English (Flowing Wells High School)
  • Senior Dark Romanticism (Flowing Wells High School)
  • Gothic Literature (Flowing Wells High School)

Research Interests

  • Gothic Horror
  • Dark Poetry
  • True Crime

Academic Awards

  • Tulane Senior Achievement Prize in Creative Writing, Tulane University June 2011

Selected Publications

Hollow Girls, novel, Cemetery Dance Publications 2024
Bad Omens, poetry collection, Querencia Press 2023
Burials, poetry collection, CLASH Books 2020

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