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

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September 5, 2013

T. C. Boyle

T. C. Boyle is the author of twenty-two books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), The […]

August 23, 2013

Jamaal May

Jamaal May is a poet from Detroit, MI where he taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. His poetry won the 2013 […]

August 12, 2013

Adam Stumacher

Adam Stumacher’s fiction has appeared in Granta, Best New American Voices, TriQuarterly, Massachusetts Review, and Sun, and won the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. After living in Asia, Latin America, […]

August 1, 2013

Keith Ekiss

Keith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, and a recent graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He […]

July 22, 2013

Emily Anderson

Emily Anderson’s writing has recently appeared in Web Conjunctions, the White Wall Review, and Requited. Her first book of poetry is forthcoming from Blaze Vox Books. She is working toward […]

July 11, 2013

Rachel Zucker

Rachel Zucker is the author of several poetry collections, including Museum of Accidents (2009), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and named one of the best poetry […]

July 1, 2013

Nick White

Nick White’s work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Third Coast, Permafrost, and elsewhere. Recently, he earned an MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University. He is currently […]

June 7, 2013

Solmaz Sharif

Solmaz Sharif is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University where she is working on a poetic rewrite of the U.S. Department of Defense’s dictionary. A 2011 […]

May 29, 2013

Aisha Gawad

Aisha Gawad is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in Fiction at Cornell University. She is currently at work on her first novel about the Arab community in Bay Ridge, […]

May 16, 2013

Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in GRANTA, Iowa Review, Southern Review, Conjunctions, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Her collection of […]

May 7, 2013

Clay Matthews

Clay Matthews has published poetry in journals such as American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. His most recent book, Pretty, Rooster (Cooper Dillon, […]

February 19, 2013

Carolina Ebeid

Carolina Ebeid, a CantoMundo Fellow, grew up in New Jersey. She holds a degree from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Her work has appeared in […]