Description
Poetry. "George Drew holds a high place among our lyric poets, and is a masterful storyteller besides. For evidence of his narrative skills, see Elegy for Jared, The Men, Matthew Brady Speaks, About Connecticut and others. FANCY'S ORPHAN is an outstanding collection full of things moving and memorable. Any reader is sure to find great pleasure in it."—X. J. Kennedy
Author Bio
George Drew is the author of The View from Jackass Hill, 2010 winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press, which also published Down & Dirty (2015), and his New & Selected, Pastoral Habits (2016), winner of the Adirondack Literary Award for Best Poetry Book, and a Finalist for The Lascaux Review's Poetry Book Prize. He is the winner of the 2014 St. Petersburg Review poetry contest, the 2016 The New Guard's Knightville Poetry Contest, and is First Runner Up for the 2017 Chautauqua Literary Journal's Editors Choice Award, his poem appearing in this year's issue. George was a recipient of the Bucks County Muse Award in 2016 for contributions to the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, literary community. His most recent book is FANCY'S ORPHAN (Tiger Bark Press, 2017).
Author City: POESTENKILL, NY USA