Staff

Speer Morgan (Ph.D, Stanford University) has been associated with the Missouri Review from its inception, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Missouri Review since 1979.  A professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia…    read more

Kate McIntyre (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia) worked at the Missouri Review from 2008 to 2013 and returned in 2016 as Managing Editor, after several years as a visiting assistant professor of English and…    read more

Evelyn Somers (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia) joined the Missouri Review as an intern and has been associate editor of the magazine since 1990. Work she has edited for TMR has appeared in virtually every major prize…    read more

Kris Somerville (M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia) is the Marketing Coordinator for the Missouri Review, a position she has held since 2000.  Her short stories, nonfiction, and prose poems have appeared in a…    read more

Dedra Earl (B. Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia) is the Assistant Managing Editor.  Earl has worked for the Missouri Review since 1990 and manages the daily administrative and fiscal operations of the magazine office.

Leanna Petronella‘s poetry can be seen in Beloit Poetry Journal, CutBank, La Petite Zine, ElevenEleven, and other publications, while her nonfiction appears in Brevity, and her fiction in Drunken Boat. Her…    read more

Christina Bramon (B.A., Boston University) is the Web Editor of the Missouri Review.   A Missouri native, she worked in marketing for architecture in Boston and New York and as…    read more