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 identifies as nonbinary and 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.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi | |
---|---|
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 identifies as nonbinary and 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.