Nandi Comer

Nandi Comer is an award-winning poet and essayist. She served as the 2nd Poet Laureate of the state of Michigan 2023-2025. She is the author of the chapbook American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press). Her debut poetry collection, Tapping Out (Triquarterly), won the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, a Callaloo Fellow, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, and a 2019 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow.  Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poets, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Offing, Tupelo Quarterly, and others. She currently serves as the 2025-2026 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing and co-director of Detroit Lit.