Jamie Manias earned their MFA in poetry at Bowling Green State University, where they served as an assistant editor for Mid-American Review and wrote poems about microbiology. They now work with three lovely Heidelberg Windmills as an pressman at a letterpress shop, printing stationery and snarky greeting cards. Their work has been published in places such as The Kismet Magazine, Fruitslice, and Rat's Ass Review. They can be found on Instagram at @jamiemanias.
Selected work
Firsts
The Garlic Press, 2026
Cambrian Exploticons
MEMEZINE, 2026
Burden of Beasts; Doctors don't want you to know about this one simple trick for baby-smooth skin
The Gorko Gazette, 2026
Renewable Teeth; Affirmations for the Germaphobe Microscopist; Tetragrammaton
ionosphere, 2025
Constellationization
the voidspace, 2026
Autocannibalistic Breakfast in Bed, Post-Top Surgery; Gay Shotgun Wedding Vows, Idaho
Dipity Lit Mag, 2025
Quiet; The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Paraselene, 2025
A True Name
Ouch! Collective, 2025
Before plants
Spaceports & Spidersilk, 2025
Self-Realization According to the Slime Mold
WIREWORM MAGAZINE, 2025
INTERNAL LOCUST OF CONTROL
The Kismet Magazine, 2025
Internal Dialogue in the Line for Free Samples of Eternal Life at the Costco
The Kismet Magazine, 2025
brother's keeper
Fruitslice, 2024
Ribbon Boy / Ribbon Girl
t'ART Magazine, 2024
DOOM (1993)
Cicada Creative Magazine, 2024
Slice of Life; Roller Disco
The Amazine, 2024
CT Scan Ekphrasis
Rat's Ass Review, 2024
Negative Space
Apocalypse Confidential, 2024
A Forcerant: My Descent into Muskmelon/Muskrat Madness
Mid-American Review (Blog), 2024
Gene Sequence as Sheet Music
dadakuku, 2024