Cathryn Drake

Cathryn Drake is a freelance writer and editor. Formerly copy chief of design magazine Metropolis, she edits publications for Yale School of Architecture as well as for book publishers, cultural institutions, curators, and academics. She is especially adept at tightening texts and refining translations for more clear, concise, vivid, grammatical, and graceful texts. She has written about art, design, travel, and culture for Artforum, e-flux Criticism, frieze, Metropolis, Men’s Vogue, Kathimerini, BBC, Time, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, among other periodicals. She has contributed essays to many exhibition catalogs, including “Present Perfect: Meme and Memory,” on artist Leonard Qylafi, for the Albanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. She also curated the exhibition “The Presence of Absence, or the Catastrophe Theory,” shown at Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC), in Cyprus, in 2018, and at Izolyatsia, in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2016.