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

Read
Photo of Diana Cao

Diana Cao

Diana Cao’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Cao has received support from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Just Buffalo Literary Center. Her debut collection, Slipstream, won the Tupelo Press 2024 Berkshire Prize for Poetry, selected by Matthew Rohrer, and is forthcoming in 2026.