Staff

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

Ellen Orner is a writer and editor from Gary, Indiana. Since graduating from Valparaiso University she has worked in publishing and communications strategy at the University of Montana, University of…    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…    read more