10 Facts About Speer Morgan

Speer Morgan was born on January 25,1946 in Fort Smith, Arkansas and is an American novelist, short story writer, and editor.

Speer Morgan was assistant professor at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri from 1972 to 1978, was associate professor beginning in 1978, and is currently a professor of English and editor of The Missouri Review.

Speer Morgan taught at the Moberly Area Junior College in 1977 and was a member of the literature panel for the National Endowment for the Arts from 1975 to 1979.

Speer Morgan has won several awards, including the Best Story of the Year award from Prairie Schooner in 1978, for “Internal Combustion.

Speer Morgan 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.

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Speer 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.

Speer Morgan has been editor-in-chief of The Missouri Review, since 1980.

Speer Morgan co-edited of The Best of the Missouri Review and For Our Beloved Country: Diaries of Americans in War.

Speer Morgan has been a visiting writer at the University of Texas, the University of Arkansas, and the Paris Writers Workshop.

In 2019, Speer Morgan was awarded the Distinguished Literary Achievement Award by the Missouri Humanitaries Council.