C.R. Calabria has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Spruceton Inn Residency—where he received the Tracy Kennard Emerging Writer Award—and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where he is now a panelist. A finalist for the 2025 Ninth Letter Literary Awards, Cory’s personal essays and reporting have been featured in Brevity, Pit, and Strange Pilgrims, and he’s working on a book about human research subjects. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.