[2] Their family owned movie theaters, including a drive-in, in several small towns across the state.
[3][4] Calvocoressi, who is a nonbinary lesbian,[5][6] has used their writing to reflect on their mother's mental illness and suicide;[7][8] their work also explores small town America, history, sexuality, faith, violence, gender, and the body.
[2] They have been a visiting professor of poetry at UCLA, Bennington College, and UC-Irvine, and held a Stegner Fellowship and a Jones Lectureship at Stanford University.
[11] Stemming from their "deep interest in interdisciplinary approaches to writing, art, and ecological culture," they created Voluble, an "off-the-page makers’ space for writers and artists of all kinds," supported by LARB.
[14][15][8] They now teach in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers,[16] and at University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill, where they are an Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry.