Brandon Adams Author & Editor

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950), best known for Spoon River Anthology, was born in Garnett, Kansas and grew up in Petersburg and Lewistown, Illinois. After practicing law in Chicago for over three decades, he left to pursue writing full time, publishing a total of twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies.

Jason Stacy is the author of Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town.

Assistant editors: Brandon Adams, Scott Both, Joseph Davis, Shawn Emily, Jessica Guldner, Amy Kapp, Joseph King, Andrew Niederhauser, Abbigayle Schaefer, Elizabeth Schroader, Andrew Shepherd, Nicholas Swain, and Lucas Turnbull.