ISSUES | Contributing Authors

Hilary Masters was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri.  He served as a Naval Correspondent toward the end of WWII, worked on the Washington Daily News, and graduated from Brown…    read more

Steve Kronen’s work has appeared in mutiple magazines besides the Missouri Review, including The New Republic, The American Scholar, Poetry, Agni, APR, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and The Threepenny Review. He has written two books, Empirical Evidence (Georgia Press, 1992) and Splendor (BOA…    read more

Terra Ziporyn is a former associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and the author of Disease in the American Press (Greenwood Press, 1988).

Michael Heffernan’s new book, The Man at Home, appeared in 1988.

Susan Perabo is Writer in Residence and Associate Professor of English at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Her story collection Who I Was Supposed to Be was published in 1999…    read more

Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, better known as Zakes Mda, is an internationally acclaimed South African poet, playwright, novelist and painter. Born in 1948 in the Eastern Cape, Mda spent his…    read more

Christopher McIlroy has published stories in Fiction, TriQuarterly, and Story Quarterly.

Robert Morgan is the author of At the Edge of the Orchard Country.  [1986]