ISSUES | Contributing Authors

Polly Rosenwaike’s fiction and book reviews have appeared in Zyzzyva, River Styx, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Brooklyn Rail, The Millions and elsewhere. She lives in Ann Arbor and teaches…    read more

Patricia Bjorklund is from southern Connecticut; she has an MFA from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. “U.S. and Them, 1972,” which appears in TMR 34.1, is the title chapter of…    read more

Born Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe, Jelly Roll Morton was a prolific composer and pianist of the Jazz Age.

Alistair Daniel is an associate lecturer in creative writing at the Open University in the UK. His stories have appeared in Narrative, Litro, Stand, the Stinging Fly, the Irish Times…    read more

Tyler Keevil grew up in Vancouver and in his midtwenties moved to Wales.  He is the author of several books, and his short fiction has appeared in a wide range…    read more

Chelsea Rathburn is the author of Still Life with Mother and Knife, forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in 2019, as well as A Raft of Grief and The Shifting…    read more

Bradley Bazzle’s first novel, Trash Mountain, won the Red Hen Press Fiction Award, judged by Steve Almond. His short stories can be found in the Iowa Review, New England Review,…    read more

Jocelyn Cullity is assistant professor of creative writing and chair of film studies at Truman State University. Her novel Amah & the Silk-Winged Pigeons won the 15th annual Best Book…    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