Suzanne Frischkorn is a Cuban American poet and essayist. She is the author of four poetry books, most recently 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), finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, plus Girl on a Bridge (2010) and Lit Windowpane (2008) winner of The Writer’s Center Emerging Writers Fellowship, as well as five chapbooks. Mary Oliver selected her chapbook Spring Tide for The Aldrich Poetry Award.
She is the recipient of a 2025 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, a SWWIM Residency Award at The Betsy, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
Her poems have recently appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Poetry International, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, and The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders.
Her essays have been anthologized in A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers (Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics, 2024), and Poets’ Poets (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025).
She is an editor at $ – Poetry Is Currency , an assistant poetry editor for Terrain.org and previously served on the Terrain.org editorial board. She teaches for The Writers Voice of Central New York’s PRO Program, and The Writers Voice Online.
Contact: suzanne.frischkorn at gmail.com
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