GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI
Gabrielle Calvocoressi‘s new collection of poetry, The New Economy, was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. Other collections include The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.
They are the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others.
Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler, The New York Times, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi was the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for 2022-23.
Calvocoressi is a Professor of English and Creative at UNC Chapel Hill where they are also Senior Fellow at The Center for the Study of the American South at the Love House. Calvocoressi is on burial crew at Bluestem Conservation Cemetery and is proud to meet and talk to people all over the state of North Carolina through the great work of Carolina Public Humanities.
Calvocoressi serves on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets and lives in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice.
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