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

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Madeleine Cravens

Madeleine Cravens is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Max Ritvo Poetry Fellow. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, American Chordata, Best New Poets, Narrative Magazine, and Third Coast.