ASA DRAKE is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of Maybe the Body: Poems (Tin House) and Beauty Talk: Poems, winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Revizyon Kenyon Residential Writers Workshop, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Storyknife, Sundress Publications, Kay an Tòl, and Idyllwild Arts. Drake’s poems are published or forthcoming in La Revizyon Jòjya, Magazin Pwezi, Revi Sewanee, ak Revizyon Kwotèl Vijini. A former librarian, she currently works as a teaching artist.
