Su Cho is the author of The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin 2022) which was selected for the 2021 National Poetry Series by Paige Lewis and featured in places like the New York Times Book Review and NPR. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, and They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets. Her most recent editorial work includes serving as guest editor at POETRY.

 

Born in South Korea and raised in Indiana, a recipient of the 2025 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, she currently resides in Nashville, TN where she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Vanderbilt University. She is working on her second poetry collection as well as an essay collection about religion, ghosts, and growing up in the Midwest.