Jessica Manack

I'm a writer and editor based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania whose recent interests include Appalachian history, especially that of its women residents, Forest County and the PA Wilds, conservation and forest stewardship, parenting, and art on paper, particularly correspondence art. I am honored to be the recipient of a 2022 Curious Creators Grant and the winner of the Five South Spring 2022 poetry contest. My work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best Small Fictions. I periodically teach writing workshops, and I'm also the Development Editor at Belt Magazine.

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Read samples of my work below. Work has recently appeared in Still: the Journal, The Drift, Sheila-na-Gig online, The Watershed Journal, Impost, Litro Magazine, Women Speak, Fine Print, Dinner Bell, The Ekphrastic Review, Lunch Ticket, Arachne Press and SWWIM Every Day, Anti-Heroin Chic, Dunes Review, and Hoot, and is forthcoming in Doubleback Review and Whale Road Review. My articles about parenting have recently appeared on Insider, YMC.ca and Her View From Home.

 

My work was also included in the Sidewalk Poetry Project in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Find my words on Fifth Avenue!

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As the winner of the 2023 Sheila-Na-Gig Editions' First Chapbook Prize, my poetry collection Gastromythology was just released. Order here.

 

​Do you have a need for writing, proofreading or editing services? Contact me using the form below. 

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UPCOMING APPEARANCES ​​​​​

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January 8, 2025 - Youngstown, OH - Lit Youngstown First Wednesday Reading series

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February 13, 2025 - Morgantown, WV - Monongalia Arts Center

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March 7, 2025 - Athens, OH - Women Speak reading

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March 12, 2025 - Dallas, TX - Inner Moonlight Reading Series

 

April 4, 2025 - Phoenix, AZ - First Friday Poetry at Changing Hands 

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June 3, 2025 - Cincinnati, OH - Poetry Night at Sitwell's