Featured Prose

Mitch Wieland’s short story “Snow Angels” debuted in the summer 2015 edition of The Missouri Review. In the years since, Wieland adapted the story into his forthcoming novel, The Ghosts…    read more

“Snow Angels” by Mitch Wieland first appeared in TMR 38.2 and later in the TMR anthology Hello, I Love You: Stories of Romance. Wieland turned the story into a novel, The…    read more

Rufi Thorpe is the author of the Clark Fiction Prize-winning novel Margo’s Got Money Troubles, as well as The Girls from Corona Del Mar, Dear Fang, With Love and The Knockout Queen, which was a…    read more

Tom Junod is a widely read longform investigative journalist whose work has earned both broad acclaim and occasional controversy. He spent the first two decades of his career at men’s…    read more

When I picked up Richard’s first book, Not a Soul But Us, I knew only that it was a story in eighty-four sonnets about a boy and his dog struggling to…    read more

Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet and editor whose newest poetry book, Accidental Devotions, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2026. Accidental Devotions, a collection dedicated to…    read more

Fall 2025 Missouri Review interns Graham Medric George ’27 and Sofia Louise Ottolini ’27 interviewed Julia Ridley Smith about Sex Romp Gone Wrong, her recent short-story collection, when she visited…    read more

Catherine Arnold is no stranger to silence. She didn’t read until age eleven, and as a painter who experiences synesthesia, she is always looking at words, images, and scenes coded…    read more

“Eighteen People Every Hour” by Dennis McFadden is a moving meditation on memory, death, and desire. First featured in TMR 46.4, McFadden’s story is a portrait not only of decline…    read more

Sara Beth Greene’s “Drifting in 7-Eleven” follows a young woman whose Instagram posts about Tokyo’s surprising convenience-store finds become her life preserver as she drifts through the wreckage of one…    read more