ABOUT GEORGE DREW

GEORGE DREW was born in Mississippi and grew up there and in New York State , where he currently lives. Toads in a Poisoned Tank , his first book, was published in 1986. The chapbook, So Many Bones (Poems of Russia ) , was published in a bilingual edition by a Russian press in 1997.

A second collection, The Horse's Name Was Physics , appeared in 2006 from Word Tech Communications, under their Turning Point imprint. One of George's poems received an Honorable Mention in the Robert Frost Foundation's poetry competition, 2002, and another in the W.B. Yeats Society of NY's competition, the same year. He was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2004, and that summer he was a Guest Poet at The Frost Place in Franconia , NH . He was the winner of the 2003 Paumanok Poetry Award. Most recently George won the 2008 South Carolina Review's 40th Anniversary Poetry Contest, which will be announced in the fall 2008 issue.

George has published in such literary journals as Antioch Review,
Beloit Poetry Journal, Connecticut Review, Hollins Critic, Mississippi
Review, Poetry East,Quarterly West, Salmagundi, Southern Poetry Review,
Sou'Wester, and The Texas Review.