Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Gabrielle Calvocoressi was born in Central Connecticut. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner fellowship in Poetry, a Jones Lectureship in Poetry at Stanford University and a Rona Jaffe Woman Writers' Award. Her poem "Circus Fire, 1944" received
The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Prize. Her first collection,
The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (
Persea Books, 2005), was shortlisted for the Northern California Book Award and won the 2006 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, and her secodn collection
Apocalyptic Swing was published by Persea in September 2009. She lives in Los Angeles and currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of Arts in San Francisco and in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Warren Wilson College.
Posted on October 24, 2006 5:47 AM
