Gabrielle Calvocoressi (born in New Haven, Connecticut) is a poet who writes expansive, formally inventive verse at the intersection of American music, landscape, race, and gender identity. They received their MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and have taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their collections include The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea Books, 2005), Apocalyptic Swing (Persea, 2009), and Rocket Fantastic (Persea, 2017), which won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. They have received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, and an NEA Fellowship.