GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems; Apocalyptic Swing: Poems, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Rocket Fantastic: Poems, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. They are the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship at Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others. Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler, The New York Times, Poetry, Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. They are an editor-at-large at Los Angeles Review of Books and poetry editor at Southern Cultures. Works in progress include a nonfiction book entitled The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself and a novel, The Alderman of the Graveyard. Calvocoressi was the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for 2022-2023. They teach at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and live in Old East Durham, North Carolina, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry is The New Economy (Copper Canyon Press).