Employee Directory

Amanda Volel

• Content Marketing Specialist/Writer
• 718-836-9800 x3953
• Email
• Dyker Heights
• All School

“Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative, it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference–the way in which we are like no other life.”
– Toni Morrison

Amanda Volel joined Poly’s Engagement and Communications Department in 2023. She earned a BA in English Writing from DePauw University and a master’s degree in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. With a background in education, Amanda previously worked in communications and program management with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, as well as a middle school teacher in school and summer program settings. Raised in Queens, NY, just a few short blocks away from a local library, Amanda is a poet who holds her library card dear.