Virginia: USA

Jeannette Drake

Jeannette Drake, born in Newport News, Virginia is a poet and psychotherapist who incorporates poetry, music, visual art and writing as healing techniqus in her private practice. She holds a Masters Degree in Social Work and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Her poetry has been published in Honey Hush! An Anthology of Afican American Women's Humor, Obsidian, Callaloo: A Journal of African and African American Arts & Letters, The Southern Review, Xavier Review, New Virginia Review and other journals and magazines. Three chapbooks, Bulletin!, Daughter of Abraham and Pods and Peas: Summer Meditations were published in 1996.

A recipient of Individual Artist Project Grants from The Virginia Commission for the Arts in 1992 and 1993, Drake won a scholarship award for drawings exhibited in "Emerging Talent" (Leonard E.B. Andrews) Foundation in 1999. Drake worked as a writer in the classroom for more than 20 years and in the fall of 2000 served as poetry instructor for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation's Saturday Academy in Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

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