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

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Courtney Queeney

Courtney Queeney is the author of Filibuster to Delay A Kiss (Random House, 2007) and co-author of Three New Poets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006). Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Believer, McSweeney’s, New York Times, and Ploughshares, in addition to other journals and anthologies. She is currently working on Escape Artist, a collection of new poems, and a memoir about domestic violence.