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

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Allison Adair

Allison Adair’s recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry (2018), Image, Iron Horse Literary Review, North American Review, and ZYZZYVA; and have received the Pushcart Prize (2019), the Florida Review Editors’ Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in Mid-American Review’s Fineline Competition. Originally from central Pennsylvania, Adair now lives in Boston, where she teaches at Boston College and Grub Street.