Speer Morgan is an American novelist, short story writer, and editors
Education
Morgan attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, from 1964 to 1966, as well as the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he received a Bachelor in 1968. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1972 from Stanford University.
Career
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. 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. Morgan has been editor-in-chief of The Missouri Review, since 1980.
He also co-edited of The Best of the Missouri Review (University of Missouri Press, 1991) and Foreign Our Beloved Country: Diaries of Americans in War (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993).
Morgan has been a visiting writer at the University of Texas, the University of Arkansas, and the Paris Writers hop.
Membership
He also taught at the Moberly Area Junior College (a men’s correctional facility) in 1977 and was a member of the literature panel for the National Endowment for the Arts from 1975 to 1979.