Editor
- Editor, The Missouri Review, 1980-
During Morgan's editorship
The Missouri Review has published early writing by over a hundred authors, including Daniel Woodrell, Susan Vreeland, Joanna Scott, and Raymond Carver. It has also published work by well-known fiction writers such as Paul Bowles, Robert Olen Butler, Naguib Mahfouz, Gregory Rabassa, Philip K. Dick, Ursula LeGuin, Russell Banks, Henry Green, and Fred Chappell. Poets have included such names as Pattiann Rogers, Miller Williams, Robert Bly, Andrew Hudgins, Stephen Dunn, Marilyn Hacker, T.R. Hummer, and Dave Smith.
TMR’s interview series has been notable, including Annie Proulx, Edmund White, Ernest J. Gaines, John Edgar Wideman, John Updike, Larry Brown, Li-Young Lee, Linda Hogan, Margaret Walker, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peter Matthiessen, Richard Ford, Robb Forman Dew, Rosellen Brown, Stanislaw Lem, and William Maxwell, and many others.
Morgan established the “found text” and “history as literature” series, consisting of previously unpublished writing of literary or historical note. These have included formerly unpublished letters and fiction by writers such as Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams, a Trail of Tears diary by Choctaw Chief Peter Pitchlynn, and letters concerning the crisis and downfall of Robert Morris, financier of the American Revolution.
In the mid 1980s, Morgan established
TMR Online on a commercial site called The Source, making it the first magazine in the world to have an online site. Since the development of the Internet in the 1990s,
TMR has regularly refurbished and updated its site. Beginning in 2010, approximately 15% of its subscribers receive their subscriptions via a web-based service called Texterity. It is also distributed to 2000 libraries worldwide through Project Muse at Johns Hopkins.