Celeste Lipkes

Celeste Elizabeth Lipkes (Grad ’13) has an upcoming debut book of poems, Radium Girl, which will be published March 21, 2023, by the University of Wisconsin Press. The book, populated by magicians, saints, and scientists, explores the speaker’s journey surviving both medical illness and medical training. 

Lipkes received her MFA in poetry from UVA in 2013 and currently works as an inpatient consult psychiatrist at the Charles George VA Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.