Missouri Review announces winners for 24th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize

You are all invited to honor this years winners for the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize.  This years event will be held on April 26th at 7pm.  The event will be held at the Country Club of Missouri at 1300 Woodrail in Columbia.  Guests to the event will enjoy wine, Hors d'Oeuvres, and readings by the authors.

Profile of Winners for 2013

Fiction

Melissa Yancy of Los Angeles, California, for “Consider This Case”

Yancy is a graduate of the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in One Story, Meridian, The Journal, Barrelhouse, American Literary Review, Crab Creek Review, The MacGuffin, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles, where she has worked in the non-profit sector for the last ten years. Visit her at melissayancy.com.

Poetry


Kai Carlson-Wee of San Francisco, California

Carlson-Wee grew up on the Minnesota prairie. He received his BA in English from the University of Minnesota and his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has appeared in Linebreak, Forklift Ohio, Many Mountains Moving, and the Best New Poets series. He lives in San Francisco.

Essay

David Zoby of Casper, Wyoming, for “Café Misfit”

Zoby has published poems in 64 Magazine, The New Virginia Review, The Southern Poetry Review, Georgia State Review, Blackbird, South Dakota Review and others. He has also published fishing and hunting articles in American Angler, Fish Alaska, Retriever Journal and Bowhunter Magazine. He is the chair of the English Department at Casper College.

Celebrate creation and congratulate the best of 2013!