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SSML encourages the study of Midwestern literature and culture in whatever directions the insight, imagination and curiosity of its members may lead.

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The 2009 Mark Twain Award was awarded to Scott Russell Sanders, Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University and winner of the 1995 Lannan Literary Award.

The 2009 MidAmerica Award was awarded to Loren Logsdon, emeritus of Eureka College and founding editor of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction.