Asa Drake is a Filipina American poet and teaching artist in Central Florida.
She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Florida Book Awards, 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Tin House, Idyllwild Arts and VCCA. Her chapbook, “One Way to Listen,” was selected by Taneum Bambrick as the winner of Gold Line Press’s 2021 Poetry Chapbook Contest.
Drake is a member of the National Book Critics Circle with reviews published in The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online and Library Journal. She received her MFA in poetry from The New School and her MIS from Florida State University.
A copy of her CV is available here.