Kimberly Johnson is the author of two collections of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God, as well as a verse translation of Virgil's Georgics. A recipient of grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA and the Utah Arts Council, Johnson has work recent or forthcoming in The New Yorker, Slate and New England Review.
The Missouri Review, founded in 1978, is one of the most highly-regarded literary magazines in the United States and for the past thirty-four years we've upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the very best writers first. We are based at the University of Missouri and publish four issues each year. Each issue contains approximately five new stories, three new poetry features, and two essays, all of which is selected from unsolicited submissions sent from writers throughout the world.
New, emerging, and mid-career writers whose work has been published in The Missouri Review have been anthologized over 100 times in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Poetry, The O. Henry Prize Anthology, and The Pushcart Prize. We are also pleased to be the first to have published the fiction of many emerging writers, including Katie Chase, Nathan Hogan, Jennie Lin, Susan Ford, and Elisabeth Fairchild.
"The Missouri Review is, quite simply, one of the best literary journals in the world."
—Robert Olen Butler
"I've admired The Missouri Review for years. . . . It's one of a half-dozen literary magazines I always read."
—Joyce Carol Oates
Summer 2012
