about
Gabriella Graceffo (b. 1998, Fort Worth, TX) is a poet, essayist, and film photographer working in Missoula, MT. She received her BFA in Art and BA in English from Southern Methodist University in 2020, her MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana in 2022, and her MA in Literature is forthcoming from UM in 2023. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Pleiades, MAYDAY, Rattle, Cordite Autofocus, The Chestnut Review, and others. Her artwork has been exhibited in Dallas, TX at the Pollock Gallery, the Meadows Museum, and the Doolin Gallery; in Taos, NM at Fort Burgwin; and in Missoula at the Zootown Arts Community Center. Graceffo served as the Meadows Museum Poet Laureate in 2020 and has been awarded the Goedicke/Robinson Scholarship in Poetry, the David R. Russell Memorial Poetry Award, the George Bond Poetry Prize, and a Ridge Fellowship. She served as Assistant to the Editor of the Southwest Review, an Interviewer for The Boiler Journal, Arts Editor and Poetry Editor of CutBank, and a Publishing Intern at Copper Canyon Press. She now works as an Associate Editor of Poetry Northwest, a Publishing Fellow at the University of Montana Press, and a college writing instructor at the University of Montana. You can find her curled up in her apartment with her cats in snowy Missoula, MT.
