Adrienne Su is the author of five books of poems, Peach State, Living Quarters, Having None of It, Sanctuary, and Middle Kingdom, and one book of essays, Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet. Her poems appear in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation; The Best American Poetry; A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker; and The Norton Introduction to Literature. Su's awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Foundation grant, and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, The Frost Place, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and the University of Virginia. Since 2000, she has taught creative writing at Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she is Poet-in-Residence.

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Su is also a dedicated home cook and not-so-dedicated gardener. Food is a frequent topic of her poems and essays. At Dickinson she teaches introductory workshops in poetry and fiction, advanced workshops in poetry, and a creative nonfiction course on writing about food.

Her sixth book of poems, Naming It, is forthcoming from Paul Dry Books in 2027.

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