Born in New York City, Joey Nicoletti is a first-generation university graduate who has taught at Buffalo State University since 2012. He has taught such classes as Advanced Poetry Writing and Introduction to Creative Writing, among many others.
Joey is also the author of 4 poetry chapbooks and 6 full-length poetry collections, including Breakaway (2023), Boombox Serenade (2018), and Cannoli Gangster (2012), which was a finalist for the Steel Toe Books Prize. His Pushcart Prize- nominated poems, essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The Rumpus, The Adroit Journal, and Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books. His debut nonfiction book, Extinction Wednesday: A Memoir, was published by Bordighera Press in 2024, and he is the Reviews Editor of VIA: Voices in Italian Americana.
In addition to creative writing classes, Joey also teaches in the College Writing Program and in the Educational Opportunity Program Summer Academy, where he has been selected for a Buffalo State Faculty Appreciation Award and as the recipient of the 2023 EOP Faculty Merit Award for outstanding contributions to the Educational Opportunity Program through student and/or staff support.
Above all else, Joey strives to ceaselessly inspire, support, and encourage students; to learn from them as much as they might learn from him, in the hope that every person he is blessed to work with will complete their Buffalo State coursework successfully, not just to graduate but also to use their higher learning experiences as starting blocks for starting and creating the lives they imagine for themselves.
Fall 2024 Office Hours
Mondays, 12:30 pm—2:30 pm.
Wednesdays, 1:30 pm—2:30 pm.
Thursdays, 12:30 pm—1:30 pm and happily by appointment.
Education
MFA, Creative Writing, Poetry, Sarah Lawrence College.
MA, English, Poetry Writing, New Mexico State University.
BA, English, University of Iowa.