Books The Sorrow Proper, The Lost Daughter Collective | ||
Lindsey Drager (born October 9, 1986) is a professor of Creative Writing at the College of Charleston, and author of the novel The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), which won the 2016 Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Prize. It is also won Silver in the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction. She has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and received fully funded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Recent work has appeared in Mid-American Review, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Post Road, Modern Language Studies, The Huffington Post, and the anthology Best Small Fictions 2015. She has also served on the masthead of Review of Contemporary Fiction, Ninth Letter, Los Angeles Review, Green Mountains Review, and, most recently, Denver Quarterly. Her new novel, The Lost Daughter Collective, is forthcoming in 2017.
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She holds a PhD from the University of Denver and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was an intern for Dalkey Archive Press. She joined the faculty at the College of Charleston after graduating in 2016.