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

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Marcia Aldrich

Marcia Aldrich is the author of the free memoir Girl Rearing, published by W. W. Norton. She has been the editor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. Companion to an Untold Story won the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. She is at work on Haze, a narrative of marriage and divorce during her college years. She is editing Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women to be published by the University of Georgia Press.

Nov/Dec 2016

The Rejection

By Marcia Aldrich

They wait, when they should turn to journeys, / They stiffen, when they should bend.      —Louise Bogan, “Women” I debated whether to go. The invitation for the reading arrived from […]

Summer 2014

Autumn Sonata

By Marcia Aldrich

I wonder if anyone experiences Autumn Sonata, Ingmar Bergman’s meditation on the knotted relations of mothers and daughters, as intensely I do.