Discipline: Literature – poetry

Adrienne Su

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Carlisle, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996

Adrienne Su earned a B.A. from Radcliffe College of Harvard University and an M.F.A. from the University of Virginia. She is the author of the poetry collections Middle Kingdom (1997), Sanctuary (2006), Having None of It (2009), and Living Quarters (2015). Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and residencies at the Fine Arts Works Center and The Frost Place. Commenting on her work for the National Endowment for the Arts website, she said that in terms of subject matter, she prefers “the daily to the exotic.” In Having None of It, this preference is evident in the focus on balancing motherhood and professional work. Su’s poems have appeared in the anthologies The New American Poets (2000), The Pushcart Prize XXIV (2000), and Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation (2004). She teaches at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Portrait by Guy Freeman

Studios

Garland

Adrienne Su worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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