Angel Nafis (born December 1988)[1] is an American poet and spoken-word artist.

Nafis grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan,[3] where she attended Huron High School.

[2][8] Nafis is a Cave Canem fellow, the recipient of a Millay Colony residency, and the founder and curator of the Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon's readings and writing workshops.

[8][10][11][12][13] Nafis lives in Brooklyn[14] with artist, writer, and musician Shira Erlichman, with whom she is in a relationship.

[16][17][18][19][20] In June 2020, Nafis and hundreds of other poets signed an open letter to the Poetry Foundation asking for the immediate resignation of both president Henry Bienen and board of trustees chair Willard Bunn III, as well as other demands relating to the foundation's response to the murder of George Floyd.