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

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Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith’s most recent book is Good Bones. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, APR, the Believer, Paris Review, and on the CBS primetime drama Madam Secretary. She serves as a consulting editor for the Kenyon Review.