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

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Debora Kuan

Debora Kuan is the author of two poetry collections, Lunch Portraits (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016) and XING (Saturnalia, 2011). Her work has appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, Michigan Quarterly Review, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She has taught poetry through Brooklyn Poets and 92NY, and currently works at MIT Press.