Drema Drudge is a novelist and poet whose work appears in The Louisville Review, Suspended Magazine, and The Tulane Review. Her poem “Mutual Mass” received a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her poetry manuscript Waxing the Parasitical Muse was longlisted for the 2025 Idaho Prize for Poetry, and Look, I Built a Cathedral was longlisted for the 2025 C&R Press Awards. Another manuscript was recently named a semifinalist in the Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest through the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.
