Becca Drake is a researcher, poet, and print maker based in York, U.K.. She/they completed a PhD in medieval English and Icelandic literature at the University of York (2023) and has since been working on various publications and strands of research related to that work. Her/their research, both creative-critical and traditional, focuses on east coast histories and literature, maritime environments, and the place of the human in the natural world. Becca was poet-in-residence at the Hull Maritime Museum (2021). Her/their debut pamphlet Unstill Landscapes is forthcoming with the award-winning Guillemot Press in 2024. Her/their chapbook The Maritime Museum & The City (2023) is published with Thin Ice Press. Becca has poems in Propel, Reliquiae, Black Bough, Fly on the Wall, and was highly commended in the Hive Young Writers competition (2022).
In 2024, Becca founded the small (cupboard) press, House Martin Press, to grow skills in print making and to publish poetry from York and surrounding areas, drawing greater attention to that city's thriving scene of emergent visual and experimental poetry. She/they are actively involved in grass roots arts communities in York.
In 2024, Becca founded the small (cupboard) press, House Martin Press, to grow skills in print making and to publish poetry from York and surrounding areas, drawing greater attention to that city's thriving scene of emergent visual and experimental poetry. She/they are actively involved in grass roots arts communities in York.
