Noelle McManus is a writer-poet-linguist from Long Island, New York who has worked in publishing since the age of 18. In 2021, they graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with majors in Spanish and Linguistics and a minor in German. A longtime contributor toThe Women's Review of Books, they have worked as an editor for both Dottir Press and LIBER: A Feminist Review. They are currently at work on their first novel.