Suzanne Frischkorn

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) selected a 2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist,  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.

She is an assistant poetry editor for Terrain.org and previously served on the Terrain.org editorial board. She teaches for The Writer’s Voice of Central New York in the Downtown Writers Center’s PRO Program, and The Writer’s Voice Online.