Angelo Maneage is a comic, poet, and independent graphic designer living in Northeast Ohio. THE IMPROPER USE OF PLATES, a small book of poems he wrote, is out now from Ghost City Press. His latest collection of hybrid work, called BALL PIT BUCKET FILLED WITH BRIDGE WATER, is also available from Ghost City Press.
Angelo Maneage is a comic, poet, and independent graphic designer living in Northeast Ohio. He is the Art Director and Sole Designer at Cleveland Review of Books. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Cleveland State University and over the years has accumulated publishing experience in both the physical and digital worlds through lens of design and literature, from being an intern in the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2018 to guest editing Ghost City Press Micro-chapbook Summer Series in 2022. Angelo has been a speaking artist for classes at Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland State University, and the University of Iowa. Recently with Maya Jewell Zeller, he was an artist collaborator on the Sound and Color panel at the 2024 AWP conference, where they spent a month writing and making in response to one another’s work. Angelo's writing has been on, or featured in or around, Hobart & Hobart After Dark, X-R-A-Y, Afternoon Visitor, The Hunger, Wax Nine, poets.org, Sprung Formal, Cuyahoga County Public Library, among other literary places. THE IMPROPER USE OF PLATES, a small book of poems he wrote, is out now from Ghost City Press. His latest collection of hybrid work, called BALL PIT BUCKET FILLED WITH BRIDGE WATER, is also available from Ghost City Press.