My name is Kylie McCormick, and I was born on 7 May 1986 in Norwalk, CT, USA. I grew up in Stamford, CT. During the beginning of my education I focused on computers, websites, and sometimes on my writing. As I began high school, I began researching something I loved quite dearly: dragons. Since I was young, I had an interest in dragons. My love of dragons was probably founded upon the fact that one of my oldest toys was an old, ragged dragon (missing one eye) and her 'son', a smaller dragon stuffed animal.
In 1996, I took on the pseudonym Black Drago for my personal web site, which focused on my favorite shows, Babylon 5 and The X-Files, as well as fantasy stories. I made a few different web sites that featured fantasy art and stories by myself from 1996 to about 2002, and during this time my pseudonym evolved into drago. However, in 2003 I retired a lot of my personal sites because I had little time to update them due to my work load in high school. In 2004, I graduate from Trinity Catholic High School in Stamford, CT. From there, I moved on to a four-year degree program for college.
When I turned 18, I got a tattoo of a red wyvern with blue undertones on the back of my left arm. When I turned 21, I got a tattoo of a purple ouroboros with yellow undertones wrapped around a Yin Yang on the back of my right arm.
Often people ask me about the meaning of my tattoos. The original reason I got the red wyvern was that wyverns are the most biologically realistic of the dragon types. I worked with a tattoo artist to choose the exact image and colors, although I knew I wanted red. I generally refer to this tattoo as "my familiar" because it looks like a small assistant-type dragon. My Ouroboros tattoo represents transformation, change, and balance.
In May 2008, I graduated from Mount Holyoke College, the first of the Seven Sister colleges, with a A.B. in Computer Science and Theatre Arts. For three summers, I worked as an intern and later a research assistant at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks, AK. I worked on Multisearch, a form of Grid Information Retrieval.
In theatre, my foci are directing and dramaturgy. I directed six plays during my college education, including Shakespeare's Macbeth, Jarry's Ubu Roi, and Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. I dramaturged five shows, including Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Churchill's Far Away. The year after I graduated, I worked as a Company Manager at The Public Theatre in Lewiston/Auburn, ME, taking on various roles during the rehearsal process for the season. Starting in November 2009, I started at Burning Coal Theatre Company, located in Raleigh, NC, where I am still currently working.
For all four years in college, I taught a January Term course on Web Design and Web Site Maintenance, covering materials from XHTML and CSS to copyright materials. Most of my jobs in college were web based worked, and I now sometimes work designing personal or commercial web sites. During the fiscal year, I pursue work in theatre, and sometimes I do temp work in programming as well.
I enjoy reading, namely fantasy novels. Robin McKinley, who wrote The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown, and J. K. Rowling, author of the popular Harry Potter series are two of my favorite authors. J. R. R. Tolkien (his non-Middle Earth books especially), Terry Pratchett, and Craig Shaw Gardner are also authors that I enjoy reading. While I do like books with dragons within them, I like non-dragon related fantasy books as well.
I was raised Catholic, but for a very long time I identified as agnostic or an agnostic Christian. However, at the age of nineteen I decided to become a Christian again, and I returned the to Catholic Faith.
In my spare time, I like to read, write, bowl, play board games like Taboo and Apples to Apples, draw, watch foriegn films, and see theatre.
As a teen, I found out that I had PCOS, a common hormone in balance in women. Then, as a young adult, I discovered that many of my sleeping problems, such as Sleep Paralysis, were a part of a larger sleep disorder that developed with age. I was diagnosed with narcolepsy, a rare neurological disorder, in 2008, and I found a great deal of support in both of these online communities.
Kylie McCormick in Lewiston/Auburn, Maine. March 2009.
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