Faculty Profile
Adrienne Su
Professor of Creative Writing; Poet-in-Residence (2000)
Contact Information
East College
717-245-1346
Bio
Adrienne Su teaches advanced poetry writing, introductory poetry and fiction, and a creative nonfiction course focused on food. She is the author of five books of poems, most recently 'Peach State' (Pitt, 2021), which was named one of 2022's Books All Georgians Should Read and a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her first prose book, 'Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet,' a collection of essays on food and poetry, was published in 2024. Among her awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. Her poems appear in six volumes of 'The Best American Poetry.'
Education
- B.A., Harvard and Radcliffe College, 1989
- M.F.A., University of Virginia, 1993