Celeste Lipkes, MD, MFA, a fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been selected as a 2020-2021 Fellow with the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA).
The Fellowship Program is designed as an early-career initiative for future leaders and educators in the fields of academia, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, social work, and multidisciplinary endeavors. It provides an opportunity to gain knowledge about psychoanalysis and become involved in the local and national psychoanalytic community.
Lipkes will attend the APsaA 2021 National Meeting, to be held either in person or virtually, Feb. 9-14, 2021. She will also be matched with an APsaA mentor for monthly meetings. She will have opportunities to present her work at the national meeting.
Lipkes is an accomplished poet. Her work was judged a semi-finalist for the 2019 Berkshire Prize, a national poetry contest sponsored by Tupelo Press. The award recognizes an author’s first or second book of poetry and is highly competitive.
Lipkes’ manuscript, Radium Girl, has been recognized in other contests, including as a finalist for the 2019 University of Wisconsin Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prize and a semi-finalist for the 2018 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.