Courtesy of Juan Camillo Garza
Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026) and Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award. Her chapbook, One Way to Listen (Gold Line Press), is the winner of a 2023 Florida Book Award. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Kenyon Review Residential Writers Workshop, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Storyknife, Sundress Publications, Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her poems are published or forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Poetry, Sewanee Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
She received her MFA in poetry from The New School and her MIS from Florida State University. In addition to teaching craft intensives with Poetry Society of America, Poetry Society of New York, Kenyon Review Young Writers Winter Workshop, and The Loft Literary Center, she has organized and participated in community and conference panels with the Florida Library Association, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and Kundiman South. She currently serves as an associate editor with the Beloit Poetry Journal.
A copy of her CV is available here.