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.
