Author Rachel Yoder is interviewed. Ms. Yoder was The Missouri Review's 2012 Editor's Prize winner in fiction. The topic of this interview is Ms. Yoder's work, "The blood was the mountain and the mountain was the bear."

On the May 7, 2015 Soundbooth Podcast, The Missouri Review presented the third installment from the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize Reception: a reading by Andrew Cohen, from his 2014 Editors' Prize winning essay "Ronaldo."

Karen Brown is the 2015 winner of the Miller Audio Prize Contest in the Audio Documentary category for her entry titled, "Lance and Nina: a story of addiction and redemption."

Greg Brownderville is The Missouri Review's 2011 Audio Contest winner in the poetry category.

Anna Solomon is The Missouri Review's 2011 Editor's Prize winner in the fiction category. Anna Solomon was recorded live at the Cherry Hill Conference Center in Columbia, Missouri.

Ken Cormier was The Missouri Review's 2011 Audio Contest winner in the self-recorded documentary category.

Rachel Coonce is The Missouri Review's 2012 Audio Contest Honorable Mention recipient in the documentary category.

Chloe Honum is The Missouri Review's 2012 Audio Contest winner in the poetry category.

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we talk to writer Lia Purpura about her essays and poems. Lia Purpura is the author of three collections of poems (King baby, Stone sky lifting, and The brighter the veil), three ...

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we continue our First Books Series by talking to Atlanta-based nonfiction writer, Kate Sweeney. Listen in as Sweeney reads excerpts from and then discusses her new book, American ...

This week's episode of The Missouri Review Soundbooth features a live recording of Karen Russell reading excerpts from her novella, Sleep donation, and her short story, "Reeling for the empire." Russell is the author of ...

This podcast is an interview with poet and essayist Danielle Deulen. The Missouri Review's Managing Editor, Michael Nye, sat down to talk with Danielle about her poetry collection, Lovely Asunder, and her memoir, The Riots.

This week, Cary Stough talks to Wendy Xu, Co-editor of iO: a journal of new American poetry. Listen in as these poets talk about how and why iO looks for young emerging poets to publish in its online journal. Xu also talks ...

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth Missouri Review Editor, Speer Morgan, and Marketing Director, Kris Somerville, discuss their "literary dig" at the British Museum where they found a bundle of letters written by ...

This week on The Missouri Review Podcast we are pleased to feature Joshua Wheeler's radio essay "Ugly pew," which was the runner-up in the prose category of the 2014 Audio Contest.

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we are continuing to feature the winners of our 2014 Audio Contest with our winner in the poetry category, Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua.

With this dual recording, The Missouri Review honors both of the Runners-up of the 2013 Audio Contest: Henry Finch's "Key Largo," which was the runner-up in the poetry category, and "Teen contender," produced by Joe Richmond, ...

Amy Schleunes is the 2011 Missouri Review's Audio Contest first runner-up in the self-recorded documentary category.

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we continue our First Books Series by talking to fiction writer Fiona McFarlane. Listen in as McFarlane reads an excerpt and then discusses her novel, The night guest, which was ...