George Drew

George Drew is the author of eight poetry collections, including Pastoral Habits: New and

Selected Poems and The View from Jackass Hill, winner of the 2010 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize,

both from Texas Review Press, Fancy's Orphan, Tiger Bark Press, and most recently Drumming

Armageddon, Madville Publishing, 2020. Drew also has published two chapbooks. So

Many Bones: Poems of Russia and Down & Dirty. He has won awards such as the South

Carolina Review Poetry Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award, the Adirondack Literary Award, the

St. Petersburg Review Poetry Contest, the Knightville Poetry Contest and in 2020 the William

Faulkner Literary Competition. Drew was a recipient of the Bucks County Muse Award in

2016 for contributions to the Bucks County PA. literary community. Drew's biography appears in

Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide, U. of Mississippi Press, edited by Catherine Savage

Brosman. Recently Drew has collaborated with singer/songwriter Rick Kunz on a CD of original

poetry and songs entitled A Triumph of Loneliness, KBW Music, 2019.