Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Gabrielle Calvocoressi was born in central Connecticut. They received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Columbia University. 

Calvocoressi is the author of the poetry collections Rocket Fantastic (Persea Books, 2017), winner of The Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry; Apocalyptic Swing (Persea Books, 2009), which was a finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea Books, 2005), which was short-listed for the Northern California Book Award and was the winner of the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry. 

Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous other honors and fellowships, including a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and the Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas, the Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry from The Paris Review, and a residency from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. 

Calvocoressi teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.