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

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Caroline Sutton

Caroline Sutton’s essay collection, Don’t Mind Me, I Just Died, was published by Montemayor Press in 2017. Her work has appeared in Literary Review, North American Review, Pinch, Cimarron Review, Southwest Review, and Ascent, among others. In 2012 she received Southern Humanities Review’s Hoepfner Literary Award for nonfiction. She is at work on a new collection of essays focused on the natural world. Sutton teaches creative nonfiction at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York.