Adrienne Perry is an author, editor, and teacher. She grew up in Wyoming before earning her MFA from Warren Wilson College and her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where she served as the editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts, from 2014-2016. A Hedgebrook alumna and Kimbilio Fellow, Adrienne is also an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Villanova University, where she directs Villanova's program in Writing and Rhetoric. Adrienne's prose has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Callaloo, The Common, and elsewhere. Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets, an anthology of twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry co-edited with Kevin Prufer and Martin Rock, will be released by Wesleyan University Press in December 2026.