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

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Andrew Hemmert

Andrew Hemmert is the author of Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press, 2021). His poems have appeared and are forthcoming in various magazines, including The Cincinnati ReviewThe JournalMichigan Quarterly ReviewPrairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. Hemmert won the 2018 River Styx International Poetry Contest. He earned his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and currently serves as a poetry editor for Driftwood Press.