Manor Mill Poetry

Donald Berger is the author of six books of poetry, The Rose of Maine (SurVision Books), Pizza Necklace (Foundlings Press), The Long Time, a bilingual edition in English and German (Wallstein Publishers , Goettingen, Germany), Or Purchase a Star (Jiddizig Books),  Quality Hill (Lost Roads Publishers) and The Cream-Filled Muse (Fledermaus Press).   His poems and prose have appeared in Best American Poetry 2025, The New Republic, Slate, Conjunctions, Fence, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, The Believer, New American Writing and other publications including some from Berlin, Leipzig, Budapest, Hong Kong, and mainland China. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, Poetry Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, and the James Tate International Poetry Prize, and was also a semi-finalist for Conduit Books’ Minds on Fire Open Book Prize.   He currently teaches in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.

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Moira Egan is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently, The Furies (LSU Press, 2025) and Amore e morte, a bilingual New & Selected Poems (Edizioni Tlon, Rome, 2022). Her poems and essays have been published on four continents, in journals such as Poetry, The Hopkins Review, The Yale Review, The Southwest Review, American Letters & Commentary, Nuovi Argomenti, and Poesia, and in anthologies including Best American Poetry; The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics; and Best Spiritual Literature. In 2023, she won the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets for her translations of the poetry of Giorgiomaria Cornelio. She has had poetry fellowships at Civitella Ranieri, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the James Merrill House. Travelling fellowships have taken her to Malta, Honduras, and Selianitika, Greece. She lives in Rome with Damiano Abeni, her partner in life as well as

Dr. Tonee Mae Moll is a queer writer, editor, and educator in Baltimore. Her debut memoir, Out of Step, won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award and the 2017 Non/Fiction Prize. The following year, that book was featured on the American Library Association’s annual list of notable LGBTQ+ books. Her latest poetry collection, You Cannot Save Here, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Mae’s poetry has also received the Adele V. Holden award for creative excellence and the Bill Knott Poetry Prize. She has been a finalist for the Baker Awards, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net. 

Mae is the executive poetry editor for Mason Jar Press. She holds a PhD in English from Morgan State University and an MFA in creative writing & publishing art from University of Baltimore. 

Sue Ellen Thompson is the author of six books, most recently SEA NETTLES: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (Grayson Books, 2022) and the editor of The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (1st ed.). She has won a Pushcart Prize, the Pablo Neruda/Nimrod Hardman Award, two individual artist’s grants from the State of CT, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Thompson teaches at The Writer’s Center in Washington, D.C., and received the 2010 Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association.

Kathleen Hellen’s debut collection Umberto’s Night won The Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. She is the author of three collections and three poetry chapbooks, most recently from Lily Poetry Review Books, young girl in the flower of time.

Hellen’s poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Faultline, Four Way Review, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, and elsewhere. Her poetry has won the James Still Award, the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred, and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review.

Eric Baker is a graduate of the University of Maryland’s MFA in Creative Writing, where he now teaches. His work explores the intersection of his Korean and Jewish heritage, as well as legacies of armed conflict. He has been named a finalist for the Alice James Book Award, the Helena Whitehill Award and the Berkshire Prize from Tupelo Press, as well as runner-up for the Desperate Literature Prize. His writing can be found in Gulf Coast, West Trade Review, Tupelo Quarterly, as well as in Painted Bride Quarterly, where he reads poetry and fiction.