Lindsey Drager is the author of four books of prose, all published by Dzanc (The Sorrow Proper, 2015; The Lost Daughter Collective, 2017; The Archive of Alternate Endings, 2019; and The Avian Hourglass, forthcoming in 2024). These books have variously won a Shirley Jackson Award, been finalists for two Lambda Literary Awards, and are currently being translated into Spanish and Italian. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient in prose and winner of the 2022 Bard Fiction Prize, Drager is currently an assistant professor at the University of Utah.
Literary Curiosities
Spring 2024
The Tender Axis
Mary Godwin sits at her desk. It is 1816, and she has just finished the first draft of Frankenstein. She had wanted the novel to better fit the prompt: Tell […]
Winter 2014
The History of Risk and Restlessness
An Introduction to the Myth of the Wrist
Wrist studies, while trying to chronicle the controversial history of the place where the hand and arm meet, attempts to understand why our culture has grown dependent on the myth of the wrist.