Margaret Draft is a poet based in Bennington, Vermont. She holds an AB in English Language & Literature from Smith College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

A recipient of the Vermont Book Award in Poetry (2024) and Emerging Artist Award in Literature by the St. Botolph Club Foundation (2024), Margaret has also been awarded the Ethel Olin Corbin Prize and fellowships from The Frost Place for their Conference on Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Radar Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, and on Poetry Daily.

Margaret’s debut collection of poetry, Nowhere Was a Lake, was published by Four Way Books.