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

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Claire Schwartz

Claire Schwartz is a PhD candidate in African American Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Yale. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Apogee, Beloit Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review and Prairie Schooner, and her essays, reviews, and interviews in Georgia Review, Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.