Adrienne Veronese grew up in the Pacific Northwest where she was given her first typewriter at the age of eleven. By the age of sixteen she had discovered the writings of the Beat poets and saw no reason not to follow the beat as far as it would take her.
Prior to beginning her higher education, at seventeen Adrienne hitchhiked from Seattle to Boston where she completed an apprenticeship at Stone Soup Poetry, working with the Beat poets of Beacon Hill. Among noted writers who inspired her there were Stone Soup founder Jack Powers, Barbara Holland, Anne Sexton, John Wieners, Gregory Corso and children's author and illustrator, David McPhail.
After later completing a manuscript at the Quarry Hill Creative Center in Vermont's Green Mountains, she returned to the West Coast and submitted it to Poet in Residence John Haislip at the University of Oregon. This earned her a position conducting Haislip's graduate poetry workshop as a freshman.
