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

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August 15, 2012

Jay Hopler

Jay Hopler’s poems have appeared most recently, or are forthcoming, in The New Republic, Slate and Subtropics. His first book of poems, Green Squall, was chosen by Louise Glück as […]

August 10, 2012

Lilah Hegnauer

Lilah Hegnauer is the author of Dark Under Kiganda Stars (Ausable, 2005). She teaches in the English Department at James Madison University.  Her poem “Pie Bird” appears in the Summer […]

August 6, 2012

George Singleton

George Singleton has published four collections of stories, two novels, and a book of nonfiction. His stories have appeared in Georgia Review, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Zoetrope, and elsewhere. He teaches […]

August 1, 2012

Zilka Joseph

Zilka Joseph’s work has appeared in Review Americana, Gastronomica, Cutthroat, and in Cheers To Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women. Her awards include a Hopwood, a Zell Fellowship, and […]

July 23, 2012

Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown received the Whiting Award and the Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. His poems appear in 100 Best African American Poems, American Poetry Review, Believer, and Oxford American. His first book, […]

July 12, 2012

Nathaniel Perry

Nathaniel Perry is the author of Nine Acres (American Poetry Review, 2011), which won the 2011 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. He is the editor of the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review and […]

June 25, 2012

Youssef Rakha

Youssef Rakha is the cultural editor at the Cairo-based Al-Ahram Weekly and the author of seven books in Arabic. His novel Book of the Sultan’s Seal (Dar El Sherouk, 2011) […]

April 13, 2012

Rusty Morrison

Rusty Morrison’s After Urgency won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize; the true keeps calm biding its story won Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award and Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize. Whethering won the […]

April 6, 2012

Tania James

Tania James is the author of a novel, Atlas of Unknowns (Knopf) and a short story collection, Aerogrammes (Knopf), which will be published in May. Her stories have appeared or […]

April 3, 2012

Derek Palacio

Derek Palacio is an MFA candidate in fiction at the Ohio State University. This is his first publication.  His story “Sugarcane” appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of KR. KR: […]

March 23, 2012

Kevin Prufer

Kevin Prufer’s newest books are In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011) and National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008). With D. A. Powell, he recently edited Dunstan Thompson: On […]

March 20, 2012

Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar has published fiction in The Kenyon Review and poetry in the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly. His first novel, Partitions, was published in 2011. He is also the […]