Eliza Heath (Class III) is the winner of the 2006 Elizabeth Bishop Prize For Verse. Eliza’s poems, entitled Hi-8,Sestina for Your Lasting, We Walk with Soft Feetand Kevin Carter, 1997, were selected as the prize-winning poems from among 400 writing samples submitted from around the world. As the winner of the Bishop Prize, given by the Writing Studio at Walnut Hill School, Eliza is invited to join the Walnut Hill Summer Writing Program for three weeks of study in Cambridge, England and Natick, Massachusetts. Her poem will also be published inThe Blue Pencil, the literary magazine of the Writing Studio. Hannah Pulit (Class II) and Tara Venkatramam (Class II) received honorable mentions for this prize.
