Gabrielle Calvocoressi

The Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series Presents: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Reading: Thursday, March 16
Atherton Union Reilly Room, 7:30 PM

Student Q&A: Thursday, March 16
Efroymson Center for Creative Writing, 2:25 PM

 

 

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, Apocalyptic Swing, was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award.  Her poems have been featured in The New York TimesBoston ReviewThe Washington Post, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and in numerous journals and are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine and At Length. She writes the Sports Desk column for The Best American Poetry blog and is on the advisory board of The Rumpus‘ Poetry Book Club.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including The Paris Review‘s Bernard F. Conners Prize, a Rona Jaffe Woman Writers Award, a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Civitella di Ranieri Fellowship and Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship in Marfa, Texas. She sits on the poetry boards of The Rumpus and From the Fishouse. She is the Senior Poetry Editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books.