Adrie Kusserow was born in Underhill Center, Vermont, in 1966. While a freshman at Amherst College, she traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal, and northern India to study Tibetan Buddhism. She went on to study anthropology and psychology at Harvard Divinity School, where she graduated in 1990. She then earned her doctorate in social anthropology from Harvard University. She is currently associate professor of cultural anthropology at St. Michael's College in Vermont and continues to do cross-cultural field work on refugees and the spread of Eastern philosophies to the West. Her poems have been published widely in literary journals, and she has been a finalist for the "Discovery"/The Nation award. Adrie Kusserow lives in Underhill Center with her husband Robert Lair, their daughter Ana Grace, her mother Suzanne Kusserow and stepfather Bill Lewis.
