ISSUES | Contributing Authors

John Hales’s essays have appeared in the Hudson Review, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, The Georgia Review and elsewhere, and he’s the author of Shooting Polaris, from University of Missouri Press.…    read more

David Lawrence Morse grew up in south Georgia and has since lived in North Carolina; Washington, D.C.; and Iwakuni, Japan. He completed an MFA in fiction at the University of…    read more

Eleanor Lerman lives and writes in New York. She has published four books of poetry. A fifth collection, The Sensual World Re-Emerges, is forthcoming from Sarabande in 2010. Her short-story collection,The Blonde…    read more

Amin Ahmad was born in Calcutta, India, and now lives in Washington, DC. His work has appeared in the Harvard Review, the New England Review, Narrative, the Sun and Utne…    read more

Emily Wunderlich holds a BA in English from the University of Missouri. She is the editor-in-chief of the university’s undergraduate literary magazine, Epic, and she reads nonfiction and fiction for The Missouri…    read more

Jillian Weise is the author of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (Soft Skull, 2007). She is an assistant professor at Clemson. In the winter, she will travel to Tierra del Fuego on…    read more

Cynthia Morrison Phoel earned an MFA from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. In addition to the Missiouri Review, her stories have appeared in the Gettysburg Review and Harvard Review. She lives in Newton,…    read more

Becky Adnot Haynes is a first-year doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati. She has published fiction in Post Road and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. She lives in the gaslight district of Cincinnati with…    read more

Rana Dasgupta was born in the UK in 1971 and now lives in New Delhi. His first book, Tokyo Cancelled, a cycle of contemporary myths, was published by Grove/Atlantic in…    read more

Kathleen McGookey has published poetry in several magazines including Epoch and Puerto del Sol.