Suzanne Frischkorn
Poetry
Fayetteville, NY
Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of four books, Whipsaw (Anhinga Press, 2024), winner of the 2025 CNY Book Award for Poetry, and finalist for the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, Fixed Star (JackLeg Press, 2022), selected a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist, Girl on a Bridge (Main Street Rag Press, 2010), and Lit Windowpane (Main Street Rag Press, 2008), winner of the Emerging Writers Fellowship from The Writers Center. Mary Oliver selected her chapbook Spring Tide for the Aldrich Poetry Award.
She is the recipient of fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, as well as a SWIMM Residency Award at The Betsy. Her poems have been featured on The Best American Poetry website, Ms. Magazine, NPR’s Poetry Moment Podcast, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.
Born in Hialeah, Florida, to a Cuban father and an American mother of Hispanic descent, Spanish was her first language. She was also raised in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, and Westchester County, New York. She currently resides in Upstate New York where she teaches for The Writers Voice PRO Program, and The Writers Voice Online.
Her poems appear in many literary journals and anthologies. Recent publications include The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Poetry International, and Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology.
She serves as an assistant poetry editor for Terrain.org.