Nafissa Thompson-Spires (born 1983) is an African American writer.
Heads of the Colored People has been translated into Italian, Turkish, and Portuguese.
[2] Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in New York, The Cut, The Root, The Paris Review,[3] The White Review, Ploughshares, and many other places.
Her short piece, “Unbought, Unbossed, Unbothered,” is included in The 1619 Project.
[5] In October 2018, she appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers, alongside David Cross and Wanda Sykes.