as "collecting books illustrated by Dulac and Arthur Rackham, walking in the woods, Dixieland jazz, the works of C.S. Lewis and, as Vice-President of Evansville's Animal Refuge, Inc, "rescuing dogs, cats and horses from what E.E. Cummings calls 'manunkind'." New York Times reviewer Orville Prescott described Drake as "a poet who writes in conventional rhyme schemes about very unconventional subjects" and noted the influence of Edna St. Vincent Millay on some of her poems. She won the $100 Arthur Davison Ficke memorial award for sonnets. Her "Precarious Ground" won the Poetry Society's $300 first prize for the "best poem" published in any magazine in the English-speaking world in 1952. Drake authored two short stories for Weird Tales as well - "Whisper Water" (May 1953) and "Mop-Head" (Jan 1954). Her second collection of poetry was This Tilting Dust (Francestown, NH: Golden Quill Press, 1955), which won her the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award. She won this award a second time later in her career. This Tilting Dust was a Finalist in the National Book Foundation poetry awards for 1957. Drake moved with her family to Henderson, Kentucky in 1953, where she became a special feature writer for the Henderson Gleaner and Journal Following her mother's death in 1956, she and her father moved to West Virginia, where for the last seven years of her life she lived in Parkersburg West Virginia, where she also worked on a newspaper. From 1957 to 1958 she worked as a poetry reviewer for The Atlantic Monthly. Drake died of cancer, aged a month and a day short of her sixtieth birthday. At the time of her death she was working on a third collection of poetry which would have included 25 new poems together with a selection of poems from her second collection. This third collection, titled Multiple Clay, was never published under this name. She also collaborated on a poetry anthology, The Various Light: An Anthology of Modern Poetry in English with esoteric philosopher Dr Charles A. Musès, which was published in Switzerland. (Lausanne: Aurora Press, 1964; 500 copies). She was listed in Who's Who in Poetry and in the 1958 supplement to Who's Who in America. Drake's poem of werewolves "They Run Again"' was reprinted in Peter Haining's anthology Weird Tales (Carroll and Graf, 1990). Bibliography Collections A Hornbook for Witches (1950) This Tilting Dust (1955) Multiple Clay (prepared in 1964, but unpublished until