She received a Bavarian State scholarship for the best performing student at Gymnasium (Sixth Form) from the Stiftung Maximilianeum [de].

In 2014, her groundbreaking novel Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt was published and a celebrated success.

Draesner frequently collaborates in cross-media projects with other artists and merges literature with sculpting, performing arts, and music.

She is a regular guest at international literary festivals, and currently (2018) serves on the prize jury at the Irseer Pegasus.

During the academic year 2015/16, Draesner will be a visiting fellow at New College, Oxford, working with Karen Leeder, leader of the Mediating Modernity project,[1] on topics of bilingualism, poetry translation and negotiating identity as a Writer in residence at the Faculty for Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford.