Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet and teaching artist in Central Florida.
She is the author of Beauty Talk, winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award, forthcoming from Noemi Press in Spring 2026. Her chapbook One Way to Listen was selected by Taneum Bambrick as the winner of Gold Line Press’s 2021 Poetry Chapbook Competition. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, the Florida Book Awards, Sundress Publications, Tin House, Idyllwild Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems can be found on The Slowdown Podcast, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review Daily and Poetry Daily.
She received her MFA in poetry from The New School and her MIS from Florida State University. In addition to teaching craft intensives with Tin House, Hugo House, Sundress Publications and The Loft Literary, 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.