Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Carrie Cogan

Carrie Cogan’s work has appeared in AGNI, Nimrod, Louisiana Literature, and elsewhere. She is a past recipient of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Prize, Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, and the First Pages Prize. She was awarded a 2022 MacDowell Fellowship to work on her first novel. Cogan lives with her sons on an island in British Columbia.