Noelle McManus is a writer-poet-linguist
from New York, currently based in Brooklyn. In 2021, they graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with degrees in Spanish and Linguistics and a minor certification in German. A 2024 NBCC Emerging Critics fellow, their literary critique has appeared in publications such as LIBER: A Feminist Review, Necessary Fiction, and On the Seawall. Their poetry has been featured in Eclectica, Amsterdam Review, and Redivider, among other venues. They are, as ever, at work on a novel.
Photo © Sarah Djebali
Selected reviews
On All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami (for LIBER: A Feminist Review)
On Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner (for LIBER: A Feminist Review)
On The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist by Tilsa Otta (for On the Seawall)
On Pathetic Literature ed. Eileen Myles (for LIBER: A Feminist Review)
On Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin (for Necessary Fiction)
Selected essays
Obfuscation and the Growing Usage of Gender Neutral Pronouns (for LIBER: A Feminist Review)
Selected poems
The Boy and I (in Vagabond City)
Henri (in Phantom Kangaroo)
I Think Too Often of Modigliani (in Amsterdam Review)
Let Us Revisit the Tigers (in Eclectica)
There Is a Chill in the Air (in Redivider)