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Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi | |
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| Born | 1974 Connecticut |
| Notable works | The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (2005), Apocalyptic Swing (2009), |
Gabrielle Calvocoressi was born in 1974[1] in central Connecticut.[2] Their family owned movie theaters, including a drive-in, in several small towns across the state.[3][4] Calvocoressi, who is a nonbinary lesbian,[5][6] has used their writing to reflect on their mother's mental illness and suicide;[7][8] their work also explores small town America, history, sexuality, faith, violence, gender, and the body.[9][7]
They studied at Sarah Lawrence College and earned an MFA from Columbia University.[2]
They have been a visiting professor of poetry at UCLA, Bennington College, and UC-Irvine, and held a Stegner Fellowship and a Jones Lectureship at Stanford University.[10] They also taught in the MFA program at California College of the Arts.
Calvocoressi is Poetry Editor at Large for the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).[11] Stemming from their "deep interest in interdisciplinary approaches to writing, art, and ecological culture," they created Voluble, an "off-the-page makers’ space for writers and artists of all kinds," supported by LARB.[12][13]
They have written about their experiences with nystagmus and how the visual/neurological difference has shaped their work as a poet and a reader.[14][15][8]
They now teach in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers,[16] and at University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill, where they are an Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry.[17] They live in North Carolina with their partner Angeline Shaka.[18] Currently, they serve as the director for The Frost Place Conference on Poetry in Franconia, NH.
- 2000 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.[19]
- 2002 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.[20]
- 2002 Jones Lectureship at Stanford University.[10]
- 2006 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, winner for The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart.[21]
- 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, finalist for Apocalyptic Swing.[22]
- 2012 Lannan Foundation Writers' Residency in Marfa.[23]
- The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart. Persea Books. 2005. ISBN 9780892553150. OCLC 56591239
- Apocalyptic Swing. Persea Books. 2009. ISBN 9780892553532. OCLC 892496860
- The New Economy Chapbook Vol. 1: Inexpensive, Healthy, Hopeful Feasts for 2017.[24][25]
- Rocket Fantastic. Persea Books. September 2017. ISBN 9780892554850. OCLC 1008903574
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