Recent Writing Seminars graduates Gabriella Fee (MFA ’22) and Sophia Berkey (BA ’24) have been awarded 2024 Fulbright grants. Fee has won a Study/Research Award to Italy, where she’ll spend the grant period in Naples completing a first-draft translation of Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto’s second collection of poetry, Dove non siamo stati, published by BUR Rizzoli in 2020. She will also study queer Italian poetics under the guidance of Professor Roberta Morosini at the University of Naples L’Orientale.

Berkey has won a Fulbright/Athens College-HAEF English Teaching Assistant Award to spend next year teaching English, leading activities, and advising students at Athens College in the Greek capital.