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

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Thom Schramm

Thom Schramm is the author of Thorn House (Yas Press, 2025), which won the Granite State Poetry Prize, and The Leaf Blower (Blue Cubicle Press, 2016), and the editor of Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic-Depression (Eastern Washington University Press, 2008). His poems have appeared in AGNI, The American Scholar, Harvard Review, and Ploughshares, and have won an Academy of American Poets Prize.