• Image - Writers at Rutgers featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi
  • Event Date: April 9, 2024
  • Event Start Time: 7:30 PM
  • Event End Time: 8:30 PM
  • Event Location: College Avenue Student Center, Multipurpose Room
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  • Semester: 2024 SPRING

Writers at Rutgers is a series that creates the opportunity for exchange between well-known writers of diverse background and Rutgers students, faculty, and the general public. The event includes an author reading, Q&A session, book sale and signing, and catered reception. Free to attend. Register for free parking here.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer's Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in  Marfa, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review, and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others.