Elisa Gonzalez (photo: Beowulf Sheehan)
Elisa Gonzalez (RJFWA ’20) is the winner of the 2024 Levis Reading Prize for her debut poetry collection Grand Tour (FSG, 2023). The prize is awarded annually for the best first or second book of poetry published in the previous calendar year and chosen by the MFA in Creative Writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University. The prize honors the memory of poet Larry Levis, who was a VCU faculty member at the time of his death in 1996.