Writers@Grinnell: Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Award winning author Gabrielle Calvocoressi will read from her work and discuss writing on Thursday, Nov. 17, as part of Writers@Grinnell. The event, which is free and open to the public will start at 8 p.m. in the Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.

In addition, Calvocoressi will lead a roundtable discussion, which is free and open to the public, at 4:15 p.m. Nov. 17 in Rosenfield Center, Room 209.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart and Apocalyptic Swing, which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A recipient of awards and fellowships from, among others, The Rona Jaffe Foundation, The Paris Review, Civitella di Ranieri, and The Lannan Foundation, she teaches in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and UNC Chapel Hill. She is Senior Curator at the Voluble, a new online maker's space for artists and critics and an editor at large at Los Angeles Review of Books. Her third book of poems, Rocket Fantastic, is forthcoming in 2017. She is at work on a memoir entitled, The Year I Didn't Kill Myself. She is an LGBTQ human living in the state of North Carolina.