Nandi Comer served as the 2nd Poet Laureate of the state of Michigan from 2023 to 2025. She is the author of the chapbook, American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press).Her debut poetry collection, Tapping Out (Triquarterly), won the Society of Midland Authors Award and Julie Suk Award. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Modern Ancient Brown, Mass Moca, the Academy of American Poets, among others. She currently serves as the 2025-2026 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and as a co-Director of Detroit Lit.