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

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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is the author of more than two dozen books, including National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming, which also received the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. Recently named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation, her awards include four Newbery Honors, three National Book Award finalists, two Coretta Scott King Awards, and the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in YA literature. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.