Drew Flieder is a composer and music theorist from Morristown, New Jersey, currently based in Dayton, Ohio. His music has been performed in the United States and Europe, and he received the 2019 Bernard Rogers Memorial Prize. His composition teachers have included Robert Morris, Matthew Barber, Curtis Roads, and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin. His work in music theory has been published in the Journal of Mathematics and Music and Perspectives of New Music (forthcoming).