Asa Drake

Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet and teaching artist based in Central Florida. Her chapbook One Way to Listen, published by Gold Line Press, won a 2023 Florida Book Award and was selected by Taneum Bambrick as the winner of Gold Line Press's 2021 Poetry Chapbook Competition. She is the author of Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026) and Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026), and serves as an associate editor with the Beloit Poetry Journal.