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

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Lucy Ives

Lucy Ives is the author of Life Is Everywhere: A Novel (2022) and An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays (2024), both published by Graywolf Press. Her writing has appeared in Aperture, Artforum, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, and Vogue. She teaches at Brown University.