Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of the poetry collection Apocalyptic Swing (Persea Books), won the 2006 Connecticut Book Award for The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, which The New York Times called “an excoriation of present-day America by a new and lethal commentator.” Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, New England Review, and The Paris Review. She teaches in the graduate writing programs of California College of the Arts and Warren Wilson College.