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

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Cate Lycurgus

Cate Lycurgus’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2020, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences and was named one of Narrative’s 30 Under 30 Featured Writers. Lycurgus lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she interviews for 32 Poems and teaches professional writing.