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

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David Ryan

David Ryan is the author of Animals in Motion: Stories, and the hybrid critical/memoir—Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano: Bookmarked. Recent and current work appears in Epiphany, Conjunctions, and Bellevue Literary Review, among others. He teaches in the Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College and the Low Residency Program at New England College—more about him at: www.davidwryan.com.