Education
Nikolopoulos received a Bachelor from the University of California, Berkeley and an Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from New York University, where he studied with the poet Sharon Olds.
Nikolopoulos received a Bachelor from the University of California, Berkeley and an Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from New York University, where he studied with the poet Sharon Olds.
His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry (2012), Best New Poets (2011), Boston Review, Fence, Los Angeles Review of, New York Quarterly, Poetry Society of America, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. He credits his decision to become a poet to finding a tattered copy of Olds"s first book of poetry, Satan Says, in a taxi in San Francisco as a teenager. Since 2013, the series has featured writers Christopher Bram, Michael Cunningham, Michael Dickman, Alex Dimitrov, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, Master of Arts Homes, Wayne Koestenbaum, Timothy Liu, Dorothea Lasky, Paul Legault, Susanna Moore, Eileen Myles, Brenda Shaughnessy, Gerald Stern, Justin Torres, Jean Valentine, Susan Wheeler, and Edmund White.
As of 2015, he teaches at New York University and Rutgers University, is the Program Administrator for the Creative Writing Program at New York University, and lives in New York City.