Discipline: Poetry
Based In: Oley, PA
Year at Millay: 2021
Awards/Honors: The Hugh J. Luke Award, "Prairie Schooner," University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE (2021); Mona Van Duyn Scholar in Poetry, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN (2017); The Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, "Smartish Pace"; Poetry Prize, San Miguel Writers’ Conference & Literary Festival; Edith Garlow Poetry Contest.
Website: http://dawnmanning.com
Dawn Manning conjures art with words, metal, and other media in the former tollhouse of a covered bridge. She is the author of Postcards from the Dead Letter Office (Burlesque Press). Honors for her work include the Hugh J. Luke Award, the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, the San Miguel Writers’ Poetry Prize, and the Edith Garlow Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Ecotone, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Verse Daily! and other literary journals.