Southeast Missouri State University Press

Autobiographical / Personal Essays

Rivers Unknown

Mike Bezemek
Published in Big Muddy 13.1

Home Fire

Kevin Koch
Published in Big Muddy 12.2

The Wall

Herta B. Feely
Published in Big Muddy 10.1

No Side-Saddled Pig

Aaron Gilbreath
Published in Big Muddy 9.2

Carrie

Margaret Dulaney
Published in Big Muddy 9.1

Circling

C.R. Resetarits
Published in Big Muddy 9.1

Hawk’s Cave

Kathryn Kerr
Published in Big Muddy 8.1

Elwood

Josh Peterson
Published in Big Muddy 7.2

Dear Mr. Titler

J. Malcolm Garcia
Published in Big Muddy 6.2

On Bayou Sauvage: The Life and Death of Jeanfreaux’s Fishermen’s Rest

Louis E. Bourgeois
Published in Big Muddy 6.2
Photos Included

Sweet Potatoes

Nathan J. Bolls
Published in Big Muddy 6.2

Seining

C.L. Bledsoe
Published in Big Muddy 6.1

Down the River

Written by Scott M. Fisher
Published in Big Muddy 4.2

In the Driftless Area

James Silas Rogers
Published in Big Muddy 4.1

The Great Palm Sunday Rat Kill

J.T. Ledbetter
Published in Big Muddy 3.2

Calling in the Cows

Erin Altemus
Published in Big Muddy 3.2

Chains

Bill Church
Published in Big Muddy 3.1

River Fever

Katherine Fischer
Published in Big Muddy 3.1
Excerpted from Dreaming the Mississippi by Katherine Fischer, published by the University of Missouri Press, October 2006. To order this book, please call (800)-828-1894.

Boy: Up from the Bayou

An autobiography written by Clobert Bernard Broussard (1900–1994).
Edited, submitted, and permission to publish granted by Valena Broussard Dismukes.
Published in Big Muddy 2.2
Photos Included

My Coronation

J.D. Smith
Published in Big Muddy 2.2

Coming Back

Kelby Ouchley
Published in Big Muddy 2.1

Sunday Afternoon at the Barnes and Noble

Anna Leahy
Published in Big Muddy 2.1

Return to the River

Randy Cunningham
Published in Big Muddy 2.1

The Heights

Lynn Casteel Harper
Published in Big Muddy 2.1

Tributary Affair

Kelby Ouchley
Published in Big Muddy 1.1

Sho-Gunning the Mississippi

Katherine Fischer
Published in Big Muddy 1.1
Excerpted from Dreaming the Mississippi by Katherine Fischer, published by the University of Missouri Press, October 2006. To order this book, please call (800)-828-1894.