Michael R. Poll is the owner of Cornerstone Book Publishers. He is a Fellow and Past President of The Masonic Society; Fellow of the Philalethes Society; Member of the Society of Blue Friars; a Fellow of the Scottish Rite Research Society; a Full Member of the Texas Lodge of Research; and a 2021 recipient of the Thomas W. Jackson Award for Excellence in Masonic Education by the Scottish Rite Valley of Rochester, NY..He is a member of the Scottish Rite Valley of Guthrie, Oklahoma.

A New York Times Bestselling writer and publisher, he is a prolific writer, editor and publisher of Masonic and esoteric books. For the last 40 years, he has been a student, researcher, educator and lecturer on the early history of the Scottish Rite.