Interviews

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

In the interview that follows, Mikka Jacobsen talks with TMR interns Annalisa Geger and Kaitlyn Jensen about her essay “Kurt Vonnegut Lives on Tinder.” In the essay, Jacobsen describes her…    read more

In the following interview, TMR intern Jed Graham talks with Kermit Frazier about his essay “Snow.” In that essay, Frazier delves into his childhood years spent in the Washington, DC,…    read more

This week on The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, audio intern Annie Thomas interviews author José Orduña. Orduña attended Columbia, Missouri’s Unbound Book Festival in April to speak about his first book,…    read more

Last weekend Columbia, Missouri was buzzing with writers as the Unbound Book Festival took place. Listen as The Missouri Review’s intern Hannah Kauffman engages poet Sarah Gambito in a brief…    read more

In this episode of The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, audio intern Annie Thomas gets a glimpse into Rachel Lears’ experience creating her documentary Knock Down The House, which follows the…    read more

This week on The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, intern Taylor Weber presents a Q&A session with director Nuria Ibañez following the screening of her film The Naked Room at True/False Film…    read more

This week on The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, intern Hannah Kauffman interviews film director Julien Elie amidst the hustle and bustle of the True/False Film Festival. In his documentary Dark Suns, Elie sets…    read more

“One day we are all capable of doing nice things, and the next day we can be horrible. And we are both.” On this episode of The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth…    read more

In this episode of The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, the Audio Team sits down with the magazine’s Managing Editor, Marc McKee. Marc (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia) worked at The Missouri Review…    read more