Jackie Mantey is a writer and artist based in Cleveland.
Jackie has worked as a professional writer and creative leader since 2008, when she graduated from Kent State University with an honor’s degree in Magazine Journalism. She has written about art, education, and technology for nearly two decades.
Jackie’s creative nonfiction has been published in books by Rustbelt Publishing and Reedy Press, as well as numerous news and creative media outlets including Chicago Magazine, Bitch Magazine, Intima Journal of Narrative Medicine, and The Columbus Dispatch, among others.
Her writing has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Press Club of Cleveland’s Excellence in Journalism Awards, including Best in Ohio: Freelance Writer for her portfolio of work in 2014. And in 2020 she was a creative nonfiction finalist in Midwest Review’s Great Midwest Writing Contest.
Jackie’s visual art practice includes embroidery, painting, animation, and mixed media collage — a practice she began in 2016 while in early substance abuse recovery. Since then, visual art has been a meditative, healing, and joyful act she prioritizes while working remotely as Associate Creative Director of Writing for a longstanding Chicago agency.
Her visual art has been exhibited in solo and group shows at Slate Arts Gallery, Fulton Street Collective, and The Latent Space Gallery in Chicago, as well as Hubbell Street Galleries in San Francisco and Valley Art Center and Feinberg Art Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. Her art has been published in Uppercase magazine and Lover’s Eye Press, among others.