Frankie Drayus

Frankie Drayus lives for the feel of words in her mouth. She has recent work in Crowsswinds Literary Journal and past poems and short-shorts in Passager (Honorable Mention), Permafrost, Poet Lore, POOL, Prime Number, Barrow Street, poemeleon, Ninth Letter, Third Coast, diode, ART/LIFE (which also published a piece of her collage art), and elsewhere. She received an MFA from NYU where she was poetry editor for Washington Square Review. Her manuscripts have been finalists for the National Poetry Series (twice), the Walt Whitman Award, the May Swenson Poetry Prize, and Marsh Hawk Press. She is a past co-director of the poetry nonprofit Valley Contemporary Poets, a multiyear co-curator of T HE T H I R D A R E A, and a proud repeat survivor of the 3:15 Experiment. She lives in Los Angeles.