Faculty Profile
Adrienne Su
Professor of Creative Writing; Poet-in-Residence (2000)
Contact Information
East College East College 309
717-245-1346
http://adriennesu.ink
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
2026-2027 Academic Year
Fall 2026
CRWR 218 Creative Writ:Poetry & Fiction
An introductory creative writing workshop in poetry and fiction.
CRWR 319 Adv Creative Writing: Poetry
Writing and discussion of poetry.
Prerequisite: 218 or permission of the instructor.
Spring 2027
CRWR 219 Writing Life Stories thru Food
Part of the Grenada Mini-Mosaic.
In this course, students focus on real lives—their own lives, historical lives they have learned about, and/or the lives of people they may meet during the semester—with an emphasis on food, while learning to write nonfiction in a creative vein. These personal essays will often lean on the techniques of literary fiction, such as scene, dialogue, characterization, and plot, to accomplish one of the main goals of all creative writing: to be irresistible to the reader. The class will read and discuss published examples of food-related creative nonfiction, including Caribbean authors. Students will be encouraged to follow digressions and tangents in search of the subject that most demands to be written about. Mosaic students will be invited to weave into their writing what they are learning in other Mosaic coursework and travel; non-Mosaic students will search their own lives and learning for essay topics. The class will hold workshop discussions of essays in progress, which authors will have a chance to revise.