Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea. 2005) and Apocalyptic Swing (Persea. 2009), which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer's Award and a fellowship to Civitella di Ranieri in Umbria. She was recently awarded a prestigious Writing Residency Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in Marfa. Her poems have been featured in the Washington Post and on Garrison Keillor's Poet's Almanac and in numerous journals. She lives in Los Angeles where she is the Poetry Editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is currently at work on her third book of poems, Rocket Fantastic and a book of prose, The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself.

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