SPEER MORGAN
Speer Morgan is a novelist, a University of Missouri
professor of English and the editor of The Missouri Review. Morgan has won
several awards, including the Best Story of the Year award from Prairie
Schooner in 1978, for “Internal Combustion.” He was a fiction fellow
for the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994. He won
an American
Book Award from the Before Columbus
Foundation in 1999 for The Freshour Cylinders and
a Lawrence Foundation Prize in 2000 for “The Girl.” His story “The Big
Bang" received the Goodheart Prize for Shenandoah’s best story
of 2008. Morgan has contributed short stories to several other magazines and
journals, including Harper’s, the Atlantic Monthly, Northwest
Review, New Letters, River Styx, and Iowa
Review.
Kris Somerville teaches literature, publishing and creative writing at Stephens College. Her short stories, essays and prose poems have been published in various magazine, including North American Review, Passages North, Ecotone, River City, Zone 3 and Quarterly West. Her visual and "Found Text" features and omnibus reviews appear regularly in The Missouri Review.
Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.
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