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 The New Economy (Copper Canyon Press, 2025); 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.