Born in central Connecticut, Gabrielle Calvocoressi received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Columbia University. They teach 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 Books, 2009), and Rocket Fantastic (Persea Books, 2017), which won the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Their honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.
