Issue 19 Showcase

Join us to celebrate Issue 19 at Boat Town Brewing in Lebanon, Missouri!

Join The New Territory Magazine editors, contributors, and friends for an afternoon of readings and celebration!

Meet Our Readers

Amy De La Hunt

Amy De La Hunt is a journalist, writer and editor living in the St. Louis metro area, where she covers dining and restaurants for St. Louis Magazine. She also writes about community development, education, and entrepreneurship for a variety of clients and publications across the U.S. She frequently joins her two adult children for adventures as they explore their new home turf in Springfield, Missouri, and Olathe, Kansas.

Dean Klinkenberg

Dean Klinkenberg explores themes of place, identity, ambiguity, and the quiet tensions that linger beneath everyday lives through historical fiction, essays, guidebooks, and noir-inspired fiction. He draws inspiration from travel, especially the people and places he’s come to know along the Mississippi River, as well as from his prior professional experiences as a Clinical Psychologist. (In 2006, he was awarded the Theodore H. Blau Early Career Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Clinical Psychology.) He lives in St. Louis with his husband.

Brooks Blevins

Brooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University in Springfield. A native of the Arkansas Ozarks, he holds a PhD in American History from Auburn University. Blevins is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South and the three-volume A History of the Ozarks. His podcast, The Old Ozarks, returns for a second season in July 2026.