Staff

AnnElise Hatjakes holds an MFA degree in fiction and a master’s degree in writing from the University of Nevada-Reno. Her stories have been short-listed for the Neil Shephard Prize in…    read more

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

Marc McKee (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia) worked at the Missouri Review from 2007 to 2010 and returned in 2018 as Managing Editor, after stints as a visiting assistant professor of English…    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.

Jacob Griffin Hall is the poetry editor of the Missouri Review. He holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University, where he worked as assistant poetry editor for the Mid-American…    read more