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

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Clarisse Baleja Saïdi

Clarisse Baleja Saïdi is the recipient of fellowship support from MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, Art Omi, and more. In 2021, she was awarded a Canada Council of the Arts grant for a nonfiction proposal, and in 2022–23, she’ll serve as a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her recent work has appeared in Poetry magazine and The Fiddlehead.