Contributor
Donald Morrill
Donald Morrill’s prose and poetry have appeared in a number of magazines, including Grand Tour, New Virginia Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review and Creative Nonfiction. He was the recipient of The Missouri Review‘s Editors’ Prize for Nonfiction in 1996. The essay “Original Friend” will appear in Morrill’s next book, “A Stranger’s Neighborhood”, to be published in the fall of 1997 by Duquesne University Press as part of the Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction book series.
Recent Writing
Original Friend
A year ago, one of my mother’s rare, brief letters arrived, bearing in its folds the reason for its being: Tom’s obituary. In two column-inches of newsprint, I learned that, at 38, he had died at home of complications from diabetes; that he was a lifelong resident of our hometown in the Midwest; that he was survived by a sister.Issue 08
I Give Up Smiling
Before I went to live in Changchun, China, what I knew of thronged street life derived from a few gyrating days in Manhattan. On Garfield Avenue in my hometown of Des Moines, the only crowd—if it could be called that—gathered on 10 consecutive August nights, drawn by the first booms of fireworks that concluded the grandstand show at the State Fair nearby.Issue 02
