Adrienne Su teaches poetry-writing workshops, contemporary American poetry, Writing about Food and Culture, and a hybrid literature-and-creative-writing course called The Craft of Poetry. She is also director of Dickinson's creative writing program.

Su is the author of these books of poems: Middle Kingdom (Alice James Books, 1997), Sanctuary (Manic D Press, 2006), and Having None of It (Manic D Press, forthcoming in January 2009). In 2007 she received a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia, Su has had residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In the summer of 2003, she was the resident poet at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, the house where Robert Frost wrote many of his early poems.

Poems appear in anthologies including The New American Poets, Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation, Best American Poetry 2000, and Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (4th edition). Middle Kingdom has been translated into Chinese and was released in China in 2006. Poems are also forthcoming or recently published in the journals Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, New Letters, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Southwest Review, and the Features section of PoetryMagazine.com (Summer 2008).

Some poems available online include: "China III" and "Asian Driver: The Sestina" at MiPoesias, "Provincetown" at the NEA Writer's Corner, and "Translation" and "Address" at Alice James Books.

For a brief interview concerning Sanctuary, click here.