Joey Wańczyk is a poet hailing from Indianapolis, Indiana currently living in Eugene, Oregon. He is set to graduate with his M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Oregon in June 2026.
While at Oregon, Joey studied under Garrett Hongo, Geri Doran, Daniel Anderson, and Matthew Dickman. As an undergraduate student at Indiana University, he studied under Adrian Matejka and Romayne Rubinas Dorsey.
Joey is the founder and editor of Waltz, an online journal of poetry.
His poems have appeared in Meridian, Shō Poetry Journal, Pacifica Literary Review, & Change, The Shore, and Frozen Sea, among others. In 2024, he released a micro-chapbook Catching Brief and Disfigured with Ghost City Press.
He is currently at work on his first manuscript of poems.
Publications
Other Things
Chapbooks
Catching Brief and Disfigured — Ghost City Press (2024)
Essays
“Something Cool for the Inferno: Reimagining June Christy”
Atwood Magazine — “Music Just Isn’t Worth It: a Farewell Transmission”
Awards / Honors
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, University of Oregon, 2025-26
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of Creative Writing, Unviersity of Oregon, 2024-25
Herman B. Wells Fellow, Indiana University Writers’ Conference, June 2023
Poems
2026
Meridian — Incompleteness Theorem (Print)
& Change — Barking & Innuendo (Print)
Shō Poetry Journal — Pirates (Print)
2025
Seaford Review — Telekinesis (Online)
Pacifica Literary Review — Cruising (Online)
2024
LBRNTH — Anthology of Dog (Print)
Troublemaker Firestarter — Teenage Lightning 2005 (Print)
& Change — Tristesse & Ultrasound (Print)
Earlier Poems
Frozen Sea — Carrion Kiss (Online)
The Shore — Dead Deer (Online)
Hello Mr. Magazine — Age Stasis, Continent, & Fishing Bird (Print)