Author Gabrielle Calvocoressi to appear at Purdue Literary Reading Series

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Award-winning author Gabrielle Calvocoressi will visit Purdue on Thursday (Jan. 31) to participate in the 2018-19 Purdue University Literary Reading Series.

Her poetry reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Room 172 of the Robert E. Heine Pharmacy Building.

Calvocoressi’s book, “Rocket Fantastic: Poems” won the 2018 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She is also author of “The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart,” which won the 2006 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, and “Apocalyptic Swing: Poems,” a finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Calvocoressi has also won a number of writing awards and fellowships, including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award, a Lannan Foundation Residency, the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review, and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation.

Calvocoressi is an associate professor of English and a Walker Percy Fellow at the University of North Carolina, and also serves as editor-at-large at Los Angeles Review of Books and poetry editor at Southern Cultures. Among her works in progress are a non-fiction book, “The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself,” and a novel, “The Alderman of the Graveyard.” 

Media contact: Joseph Paul, 765-494-9541, paul102@purdue.edu

Source: Kati Pratt, 765-496-7276, katipratt@purdue.edu