From Our Authors

Kelli Jo Ford’s  story “Book of the Generations,” part of her collection of linked stories-in progress, Crooked Hallelujah, was selected by judge Elise Juska as the best story in our…    read more

Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize winners each receive $5000, publication in the Missouri Review, and a paid trip to the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize reading and reception held in…    read more

Andrew De Silva’s   2017 Jeffrey E. Smith Prize finalist in fiction, “Coach Schwartz,” excerpted from his novel-in-progress, is the story of Ryan (“Blood”) Schwartz, a twenty-five-year-old professional tennis player…    read more

Here’s a sampler of what some of our past TMR contributors have been up to in recent months: Camille T. Dungy’s Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and…    read more

John Fulton’s story “Box of Watches” depicts a grandson and his dying grandfather who are suddenly faced with the possibility that they will be victims of gun violence. You can…    read more

Themes of isolation and identity infuse Becky Mandelbaum’s “The First to Leave is the Winner,” a story about a young woman house-sitting for an ex-boyfriend in the middle of mountainous…    read more

Susan Neville’s short story “Hunger” is about a woman beginning to handle her grief and slowly working through it. The story unites elements of the fantastic with a real, and…    read more

I spent my twenties, in the 1990s, learning how to write. I didn’t always realize that’s what I was doing. I’d ride the bus or go to the movies or…    read more

We talked with fiction writer Kim Coleman Foote about the inspiration for her story “How To Kill Gra’ Coleman and Live to Tell about It (Vauxhall, NJ, c. 1949)” from…    read more

Today, to celebrate the launch of Jane Gillette’s new book, The Trail of the Demon and Other Stories and the start of the Missouri Review‘s new imprint, Missouri Review Books, we present…    read more