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

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Noelle de la Paz

Noelle de la Paz is a poet, writer, and artist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Southwest Review, Newtown Literary, Queensbound, and elsewhere, and as part of the exhibitions Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text (Franklin Street Works, 2019) and Boulevard of Ghosts (Local Project Art Space, 2021). She was a 2021–22 Emerge–Surface–Be Fellow at The Poetry Project, and has also received support from Brooklyn Poets and the Queens Council for the Arts.