We are so excited to announce that our very own Izzy Levy has won the 2023 Winkler Prize for their essay "Poetic World-Building, Queer Ephemerality, and Sapphic Memory Work: Fragment 94 and Eloise Klein Healy’s The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho."
The Winner of the 2023 Winkler Prize
“The graduate winner of the 2022 Winkler Memorial Prize is Izzy Levy, Ph.D. candidate in Classics from Columbia University, for their essay, "Poetic World-Building, Queer Ephemerality, and Sapphic Memory Work: Fragment 94 and Eloise Klein Healy’s The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho" Izzy's essay examines the importance of loss and rupture in Sappho's fr. 94, developed through an intertextual reading of Klein Healy's response to Sappho, mediated by the concept of "queer ephemerality" articulated by José Esteban Muñoz” (2023, Oberlin College and Conservatory)
