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

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Through the Mirror

By Jessie Cato

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Jessie Cato (she/her) is a writer and climate activist from Naarm/Melbourne. She writes fiction and nonfiction pieces that explore class and gender roles, especially as expressed on and through the human body. Her writing has been featured in Stadtsprachen, Flash Fiction Magazine, and The Quarter(ly). Cato lives in Berlin, where she is at work on her first novel.

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