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

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Sydney Tammarine

Sydney Tammarine’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, B O D Y, LIT Magazine, and other journals. Her “Blue Hour” was selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021. She received her MFA in creative writing from Hollins University and is Associate Professor of English at New Mexico Military Institute. She is currently at work on her first collection of essays.