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

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Madeline Rose Hernandez

Madeline Rose Hernandez is a poet from Bakersfield, California. She was the Anselm Hollo graduate fellow at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Her work has been published by Blue Bag Press, Denver Quarterly, diSONARE, boundary2, the Back Room, and elsewhere in chapbooks and zines. Madeline teaches at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and cofacilitates precarious, a reading series and publishing project in the Bay Area. She lives in Berkeley.