Nandi Comer

Nandi Comer is the author of Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press, 2020), which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award, and the chapbook American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press, 2018). Her poems and essays have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal of Pan African Studies, and others.

Comer has served as a writer in residence in Detroit Public Schools and has worked in collaboration with organizations, including YArts and InsideOut Literary Arts Projects. She serves as a poetry editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora and is the codirector of Detroit Lit. 

Comer has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Kresge Arts, and Callaloo. She lives in Detroit.

In 2023, Comer was appointed poet laureate of Michigan. In 2024, she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.