Kelly Fig Smith is the winner of Creative Nonfiction’s $1,000 prize for best essay in The Memoir Issue. Her essay, "Do No Harm," was chosen by the magazine’s editors from more than 1,700 submissions. In it, she meditates on the experience of loss and the fragile nature of memory, writing: "In the aftermath of a traumatic event, some details recede to the blurry gray edges of the frame while others stand up, stiff like colorful pop-up book cutouts, their bright reds and greens imprinted upon the forefront of memory."