Donald Berger is the author of six books of poetry, including The Rose of Maine (SurVision Books); The Long Time, a bilingual edition in English and German (Wallstein Publishers); and Quality Hill (Lost Roads Publishers). His writing has 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’s been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the Poetry Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, and the James Tate International Poetry Prize.