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

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June 16, 2014

Mara Naselli

Mara Naselli is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Agni, Ninth Letter, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere. She writes about literature for […]

June 2, 2014

Adam Peterson

Adam Peterson is the coeditor of The Cupboard and the author of The Flasher and My Untimely Death. His fiction can be found in Indiana Review, Normal School, Southern Review, […]

May 19, 2014

Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson is the author of two poetry collections, The Keep (2001) and Micrographia (2009), both from University of Iowa Press. She lives with her husband and two sons in […]

May 5, 2014

Vojislav Pejović

Vojislav Pejović is a neurobiologist by training and medical writer by profession. In 2008, he published a critically acclaimed novel in his native Montenegro, and in 2010, translations of Charles […]

April 21, 2014

Carol Ann Davis

Carol Ann Davis’s first collection, Psalm, appeared from Tupelo Press in 2007, the same year she was awarded a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Recent […]

April 7, 2014

Tony Hoagland

Tony Hoagland’s books include What Narcissism Means to Me and Donkey Gospel. He teaches at the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson Program. An excerpt from his essay […]

March 24, 2014

Ayşe Papatya Bucak

Ayşe Papatya Bucak teaches in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University. Her work has been selected for the 2013 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories and published in a variety of […]

March 10, 2014

Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser served two terms as U.S. poet laureate and during his second term was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He lives in rural Nebraska and teaches part-time at […]

Kimiko Hahn
February 17, 2014

Kimiko Hahn

Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Toxic Flora: Poems, and her honors include the 2008 PEN/Voelcker Award. She teaches in the MFA Program in […]

February 9, 2014

Clarke Clayton

Clarke Clayton studied writing at Barnard College, where she received the Peter S. Prescott Prize and the Howard M. Teichmann Prize. Her stories appear in Storychord, Knee-Jerk, and Foundling Review. […]

January 27, 2014

Heather Monley

Heather Monley has an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Dartmouth College. Her fiction has previously appeared on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Originally from San Jose, California, she now […]

January 16, 2014

Timothy Liu

Timothy Liu’s new book of poems, Don’t Go Back To Sleep, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in fall 2014. He lives in Manhattan with his husband. His poems “The Gift” […]